Flash Flood, Kauai
- When
- March 26, 4:50 AM HST to 9:00 AM HST
- Where
- Kauai County, Anahola
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 22.117, -159.300
Flash Flood in Hawaii, March 26, 2006
Heavy rain and showers in eastern and southern areas of Kauai produced flooding conditions. Sections of Kuhio Highway between Anahola and Lihue became inundated, especially parts of the roadway near Kealia.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
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- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 rain and showers in eastern and southern areas of Kauai produced flooding conditions. Sections of Kuhio Highway between Anahola and Lihue became inundated, especially parts of the roadway near Kealia. There were no reports of serious property damage or injuries.
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 Mar 26, 4:00 AM HST, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 4:00 AM HST, 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 400 AM HST SUN MAR 26 2006 .SYNOPSIS... UNSTABLE WET WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS TODAY AND THROUGH MOST OF THE NEXT WEEK AS A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE PERSISTS TO OUR WEST. PARTICULARLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR TODAY THROUGH MONDAY THEN WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. && .DISCUSSION... A DEEP SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST ORIENTED TROUGH WEST OF THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS WILL KEEP THE POTENTIAL HIGH FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AT TIMES THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. SHORT WAVE IMPULSES ROTATE THROUGH THE BASE OF THE LARGER TROUGH AND MOVE OVER THE STATE...DRAGGING DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE INTO THE PERPETUALLY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE ISLANDS AND TRIGGERING THE HEAVY RAINFALL BURSTS. MODELS SHOW THE NEXT IMPULSE AFFECTING THE ISLANDS TODAY THROUGH MONDAY...WITH A SECOND IMPULSE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SATELLITE AND RADAR SHOW SHOWERS WITH THIS NEXT IMPULSE ARE ALREADY DEVELOPING OVER THE KAUAI CHANNEL AND ACROSS SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF KAUAI. THIS ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY INTENSIFY THROUGH THE DAY TODAY AND SPREAD EASTWARD. LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL REMAIN SOUTHERLY THROUGH MIDWEEK...SO HAWAII WEATHER WILL BE WETTER THAN NORMAL EVEN BETWEEN IMPULSES. THE PALL OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST MIDDLE AND HIGH CLOUDS LIE ALONG THE EASTERN FLANK OF THE TROUGH AND WILL LIKELY BLOCK THE SUN INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. AFTER THURSDAY...NOGAPS AND GFS WANT TO PUSH THE TROUGH TO THE EAST OF THE ISLANDS. THIS WOULD BRING DRIER WEATHER TO THE STATE BY NEXT WEEKEND. TRADE WINDS SHOULD GRADUALLY RETURN BY NEXT WEEKEND...BUT RAINFALL WILL STILL LIKELY BE A BIT HEAVIER THAN NORMAL AS ALL THE MOISTURE BROUGHT UP BY THE SOUTHERLIES FROM EARLIER IN THE WEEK GETS CARRIED BACK WESTWARD OVER THE ISLANDS. && .MARINE... NEAR HIGH SURF CONDITIONS OF 8 FEET ON THE EAST FACING SHORES EXPOSED TO THE NORTH SWELL WILL DECREASE SLOWLY THROUGH THE DAY TODAY. && .HFO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER STORM WATCH SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE MONDAY NIGHT FOR MAUNA KEA AN MAUNA LOA. FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH LATE MONDAY NIGHT FOR ALL ISLANDS. POWELL
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
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The same day elsewhere
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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: 5495613.