Name: Heavy Rain in Hawaii, September 30, 2005
Start: 2005-09-30T09:59
End: 2005-09-30T12:42
Location: Hawaii

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS HFO wrote it up.

Heavy showers over coastal and upslope sections of eastern and windward East Maui produced small stream and drainage ditch flooding, and ponding of roadways. No serious injuries or property damage were reported.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Honolulu, HI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 30, 8:30 AM HST, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 8:30 AM HST, 1 hour 29 minutes before

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI
830 AM HST FRI SEP 30 2005

.SYNOPSIS...
TROPICAL DEPRESSION KENNETH AND A LOW ALOFT WILL PRODUCE VERY WET
WEATHER OVER THE ISLANDS THROUGH SATURDAY. THE WEATHER WILL TURN
DRIER STARTING SATURDAY NIGHT AS LOW ALOFT AND THE REMNANTS OF
KENNETH MOVE AWAY TO THE WEST.

&&

UPDATE...
RADAR AND SATELLITE DATA SHOW IMPRESSIVE THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF THE
BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII MOVING WESTWARD. WE HAVE JUST ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
MOISTURE FROM TROPICAL DEPRESSION KENNETH HAS SPREAD WEST OVER THE
ISLANDS AND A LOW ALOFT IS CREATING UNSTABLE CONDITIONS. THE THREAT
OF HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY...THEN GRADUALLY
SUBSIDE AS THE REMNANTS OF KENNETH AND THE LOW ALOFT BOTH MOVE OFF
TO THE WEST. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE ISLANDS THROUGH
SATURDAY.

AT 200 AM HST TROPICAL DEPRESSION KENNETH WAS ABOUT 125 MILES EAST
OF HILO...MOVING WEST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE CIRCULATION
AROUND KENNETH IS OPENING UP INTO A WAVE BUT THE TIGHT PRESSURE
GRADIENT NORTH OF KENNETH IS PRODUCING WINDS STRONG ENOUGH TO
REQUIRE A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY THROUGH THIS EVENING. WINDS WILL
DECREASE TONIGHT AS KENNETH WEAKENS AND THE REMNANT TROUGH MOVES
OVER THE ISLANDS.

ON SUNDAY...TRADE-WIND WEATHER WILL RETURN TO THE ISLANDS AND
CONTINUE THROUGH THE REST OF NEXT WEEK.

&&

.MARINE...
WE ARE UPDATING THE MARINE FORECASTS TO INCREASE THE WINDS AND ISSUE
A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR HAWAIIAN WATERS EXCEPT LEEWARD WATERS...
WHERE THE EAST NORTHEAST WINDS WILL BE BLOCKED. BUOY DATA SHOW THAT
SWELL FROM KENNETH IS HITTING THE EAST FACING SHORES OF THE ISLANDS
SO WE HAVE ISSUED A HIGH SURF ADVISORY FOR MOST ISLANDS. OTHER
ISLANDS WILL BLOCK THE SURF FROM HITTING KAHOOLAWE...LANAI AND
NIIHAU...SO THEY ARE NOT INCLUDED.

&&
.HFO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR STRONG EAST NORTHEAST WINDS THROUGH LATE
TONIGHT.
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL ISLANDS THROUGH SATURDAY.
HIGH SURF ADVISORY FOR EAST FACING SHORES ALL ISLANDS EXCEPT
KAHOOLAWE...LANAI AND NIIHAU THROUGH SATURDAY.
&&

DONALDSON

The radar

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Event by event

1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Rain, Maui

When: September 30, 9:59 AM HST to 12:42 PM HST
Where: Maui County, Huelo
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 20.868, -156.617 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Heavy Rain: Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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Every storm in Hawaii in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Hawaii, September 2005

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5475591.