Heavy showers and thunderstorms continued across the Aloha State as an upper trough and a moist trade flow combined to adversely affect the islands.
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The episode as NWS HFO wrote it up.
Heavy showers and thunderstorms continued across the Aloha State as an upper trough and a moist trade flow combined to adversely affect the islands.
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 Feb 7, 9:15 AM HST, 4 hours 47 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 915 AM HST THU FEB 7 2008 .SYNOPSIS...THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL CONTINUE ITS PRESENCE AROUND THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS THROUGH SATURDAY. EXPECT THE THREAT OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO PERSIST UNTIL SATURDAY. A MORE NORMAL TRADE WIND REGIME WILL FOLLOW FOR THE FIRST FEW DAYS OF THE NEW WORK WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...A GENERALLY WET WEATHER PATTERN REMAINS OVER THE STATE TODAY. THE BIG ISLAND AND MAUI ARE HAVING A BIT OF A BREAK IN THE SHOWER ACTIVITY AND CLOUDS THIS MORNING AS SOME WEAK SUBSIDENCE ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS IS OVER THE BIG ISLAND AND MOVING SLOWLY EAST. THE MOST ACTIVE SHOWER ACTIVITY INDICATED ON RADAR IS MOVING ACROSS EASTERN OAHU AND EXTENDING OVER THE WATERS NORTHEAST OF OAHU THIS MORNING. THIS AREA OF SHOWERS AND COOLING CLOUD TOPS SEEMS TO COINCIDE WITH THE NEXT SHORT WAVE IMPULSE MOVING IN FROM THE NORTHWEST OF THE ISLANDS. WITH THIS IMPULSE PROGRESSING SLOWLY EAST...EXPECT SHOWERS TO REDEVELOP ACROSS MAUI AND EVENTUALLY THE BIG ISLAND AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. WITH AMPLE SUNSHINE...LIGHT WINDS...MOISTURE AND A UNSTABLE AIRMASS...THE KONA SIDE IS RIPE FOR SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. WILL LEAVE THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN PLACE FOR BIG ISLAND AND MAUI AS THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING REMAINS TODAY. THE BIG ISLAND SUMMITS WILL REMAIN IN THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY ALSO AS TEMPERATURES REMAIN BELOW FREEZING AND ANY CONVECTION TODAY WILL BRING POSSIBLE SNOW ACCUMULATION ABOVE 12000 FEET. FOR THE WEEKEND FORECAST...AM INCLINED TO GO ALONG WITH TODAYS 12Z GFS WHICH INDICATES THAT THE ABNORMALLY WET PATTERN WILL CONTINUE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...ESPECIALLY WINDWARD LOCATIONS AS LIGHT TO MODERATE TRADES AND A WEAK UPPER TROUGH PERSISTS ACROSS THE STATE. A WEAK UPPER RIDGE AXIS BUILDS ALONG 23N-25N EARLY NEXT WEEK...CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE ISLANDS TO PUT A DAMPER ON THE HEAVIER SHOWER ACTIVITY AND BRING MORE TYPICAL TRADE WEATHER. WILL HAVE TO WATCH FOR THE POTENTIAL FOR A RETURN OF THE DEEPER MOISTURE FROM THE SOUTHEAST ON TUESDAY AND BEYOND AS THE HIGH MOVES FURTHER TO THE EAST AND THE TRADES BECOME MORE SOUTHEASTERLY. && .MARINE...THE LATEST SURF OBSERVATIONS AND BUOY DATA FROM WAIMEA BUOY INDICATE THAT SURF HEIGHTS ARE AT ADVISORY LEVEL THIS MORNING. THE HIGH SURF ADVISORY IS GOOD UNTIL 6 AM SATURDAY. && .HFO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 6 PM HST TODAY FOR MAUI AND THE BIG ISLAND. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM HST THIS AFTERNOON FOR BIG ISLAND SUMMITS. HIGH SURF ADVISORY UNTIL 6AM SATURDAY FOR NORTH AND WEST SHORES OF NIIHAU KAUAI AND OAHU...AND NORTH FACING SHORES OF MOLOKAI AND MAUI. && BRENCHLEY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 heavy rain, 2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
After heavy rain, flood waters became 3 to 4 feet deep on westbound lanes of the H-1 Freeway near Makakilo in leeward Oahu.
Flood waters closed a portion of Kamehameha V Highway near Kamalo on the island of Molokai.
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