Name: Wildfire in Hawaii, June 27 to 28, 2010
Start: 2010-06-27T13:35
End: 2010-06-28T17:00
Location: Hawaii

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.

Dry brush was the fuel that fed a 350-acre blaze near South Point in Kau on the Big Island of Hawaii on the 27th and 28th of the month. The blaze was near Green Sand Beach, but it did not threaten any structures. There were no serious injuries. The cause of the fire was under investigation.

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 Jun 27, 10:00 AM HST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 10:00 AM HST, 3 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI
1000 AM HST SUN JUN 27 2010

.SYNOPSIS...
SOME ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY REMAINS OVER KAUAI DUE TO AN UPPER LOW
TO THE NORTHWEST. SOMEWHAT DRIER AIR IS OVER THE REMAINING ISLANDS.
TRADE WINDS ARE GENTLE TODAY AND WILL SLOWLY INCREASE TO THE
MODERATE TO FRESH RANGE BY WEDNESDAY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE
STRONG HIGH TO THE NORTH. WEATHER DURING THE COMING WEEK WILL BE
MOSTLY SUNNY WITH PASSING TRADE WIND SHOWERS WHICH MAINLY AFFECT THE
MOUNTAIN OR WINDWARD SIDES OF THE ISLANDS.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
THE UPPER LOW ABOUT 200 MILES NORTHWEST OF KAUAI...DISCERNIBLE ON
WATER VAPOR IMAGERY...WILL SLOWLY WEAKEN BUT THE REMAINING EFFECT
WILL BE SLIGHT INSTABILITY OVER KAUAI AND A GENERALLY WEAKENING OF
THE TRADES. LOCAL SEA BREEZES ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON.
TODAY IS PROBABLY THE LAST DAY OF NOTICEABLY ENHANCED SHOWERS AROUND
KAUAI DUE TO THE INSTABILITY. OTHERWISE WEATHER WILL BE INCREASINGLY
DICTATED BY THE USUAL OROGRAPHICALLY ENHANCED TRADE WIND SHOWERS
GOING INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK.

MORNING SATELLITE IMAGERY REVEALED SCATTERED SHOWERS ON WINDWARD
MOUNTAINS OF THE SMALLER ISLANDS. MOST OF THE BIG ISLAND WAS AGAIN
CLOUD FREE EARLY THIS MORNING EXCEPT FOR THE LINE OF SHOWERS THAT
MOVED ONTO THE THE PUNA AND HILO DISTRICTS. OVERNIGHT PRECIPITATION
WAS CONFINED MAINLY TO WINDWARD AND MOUNTAIN AREAS ON KAUAI.

THE REMNANT MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH FORMER TROPICAL SYSTEM BLAS
ABOUT 400 MILES EAST OF THE BIG ISLAND WAS MERELY A LARGE FIELD OF
RELATIVELY LOW TOPPED SHOWER CLOUDS. IN THIS SAME AREA THE REMAINING
TROUGH ALOFT UP TO MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE HAS DISENGAGED AND
IS FORECAST TO DRIFT VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTHWEST. HENCE NO
SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN MOISTURE OVER THE BIG ISLAND BUT ONLY
SCATTERED TRADE SHOWERS OVER THE WINDWARD AND SOUTH BIG ISLAND
TONIGHT AND MONDAY.

THE SECOND HALF OF THE WEEK WILL BE DICTATED THE STRONG HIGH ABOUT
1100 MILES TO THE NORTH. THE STRENGTH OF THE TRADE WINDS WILL BE
ONLY MODERATE TO NEAR FRESH HOWEVER SINCE ANOTHER WEAK UPPER LOW TO
THE NORTH WILL SLIGHTLY WEAKEN THE STRENGTH OF THE TRADES. PASSING
SHOWERS MAY AT TIMES EXTEND DOWNWIND INTO THE LEEWARD ZONES.

&&

.MARINE...
SMALL SOUTHERLY SWELLS WILL CONTINUE THIS WEEK. THE STRENGTHENING
TRADES COULD REACH SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CRITERIA TUESDAY NIGHT OR
WEDNESDAY FAVORING THE TYPICALLY WINDY AREAS OF AROUND THE BIG
ISLAND AND MAUI.

&&

.AVIATION...
NOTICE: THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HONOLULU WILL BEGIN ISSUING
TERMINAL AERODROME FORECASTS /TAF/ USING INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT HEADERS
BEGINNING WITH THE 00 UTC TAF PACKAGE ON JUNE 30TH 2010 /2PM HST ON
JUNE 29TH 2010/. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS CHANGE...PLEASE SEE
/USE LOWER CASE/:

HTTP://WWW.PRH.NOAA.GOV/HNL/PAGES/TAF_COLLECTIVE.PHP

&&

.HFO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

&&

HOAG

Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, South Big Island

When: June 27, 1:35 PM HST to June 28, 5:00 PM HST
Where: South Big Island forecast zone
Reported by: Newspaper

What these are

Wildfire: A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.

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

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Hawaii in 2010 Every state in 2010 This day in weather history Warnings in Hawaii, June 2010

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: 240730.