Waterspout, Kauai Windward Waters
- When
- August 2, 9:35 AM HST to 9:54 AM HST
- Where
- Kauai Windward Waters marine zone, 10 mi NE of Poipu
- Reported by
- AIRPLANE PILOT
Waterspout in Hawaiian Waters, August 2, 2006
An airplane pilot sighted two waterspouts 2 miles southeast of Lihue, both moving westward. Both dissipated without incident.
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.
An airplane pilot sighted two waterspouts 2 miles southeast of Lihue, both moving westward. Both dissipated without incident.
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 Aug 1, 10:00 AM HST, 23 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 10:00 AM HST, 23 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 1000 AM HST TUE AUG 1 2006 .SYNOPSIS...CONTINUED HUMID AND OCCASIONALLY WET FOR MAINLY KAUAI AND OAHU TODAY. RETURN OF MUCH BETTER TRADE WIND WEATHER TOMORROW STATEWIDE. && .DISCUSSION...THE UPPER LEVEL LOW RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR HUMID INCLEMENT WEATHER SINCE YESTERDAY LOOKS LIKE IT IS MAKING A MOVE AWAY FROM THE ISLANDS. THE UPPER LOW...DEEP ENOUGH TO PRODUCE AN INVERTED TROUGH DOWN AT THE SURFACE AND SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS LOCALLY...ALSO APPEARS TO BE WEAKENING. WEVE ALSO GOT THE FIRST HARBINGERS OF IMPROVING WEATHER...NICELY RISING SURFACE PRESSURES. THE CURRENT WET WEATHER IS FOCUSED ON KAUAI AND OAHU WHO ARE CLOSER TO THE UPPER LOW...OTHER ISLANDS ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE ONLY SPOTTY AFTERNOON CONVECTION TODAY AS INCREASINGLY DRIER AND STABLE RIDGING ALOFT NUDGES IN FROM THE EAST. THE UPPER RIDGE SHOULD REPLACE THE UPPER LOWS INFLUENCE AND ALLOW NORMAL TRADE WINDS TO RETURN TOMORROW AND EVEN DRIER AND BREEZIER ONES THURSDAY. A FEW TRADE WIND SHOWERS...MUCH LIGHTER THAN THE CURRENT ONES...SHOULD RETURN DURING THE WEEKEND. && .HFO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HIGH SURF ADVISORY...SOUTH FACING SHORES TIL 6 PM WEDNESDAY. && MATSUDA
Event by event
1 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Waterspout
- A tornado over water. One that moves ashore is filed as a tornado from the coastline on.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Michigan, August 2 to 3, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, August 2, 2006
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Kansas, August 2, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 2, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 2, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Maine, August 2, 2006
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Georgia, August 2, 2006
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, August 2, 2006
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, August 2, 2006
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 2, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 2, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, August 2, 2006
More
Every storm in Hawaiian Waters in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather history
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5528988.