Heavy Rain, Maui
- When
- January 31, 6:42 PM HST to 9:47 PM HST
- Where
- Maui County, 0.12 mi NNE of Pauwela to 3.17 mi W of Waianapanapa Sp
- Reported by
- Official NWS Observations
- Coordinates
- 20.931, -156.319
Heavy Rain in Hawaii, January 31, 2015
Trade winds carried heavy showers over parts of windward East Maui. The rain produced small stream and drainage ditch flooding, and ponding on roadways.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- 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.
Trade winds carried heavy showers over parts of windward East Maui. The rain produced small stream and drainage ditch flooding, and ponding on 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 Jan 31, 4:00 PM HST, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 4:00 PM HST, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
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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- Winter Weather in Colorado, January 31, 2015
- Dense Fog in Colorado, January 31, 2015
More
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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 552001.