HOUR BY HOUR: What to expect as a powerful storm moves over Hawaii bringing heavy rain, damaging winds, and flooding
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Your First Alert Weather Team has declared in the present day a FIRST ALERT WEATHER DAYS As a massive and powerful Kona storm moves north of the state and continues to pull up deep tropical moisture and heavy rain at occasions over all islands.
The storm is predicted to convey an prolonged interval of flash flooding, damaging winds, and robust thunderstorms as it extends east to Maui County and Hawaii Island into most of Saturday night.
The Flood Watch has come to an finish for Kauai, and will finish for Oahu Saturday evening. The Flood Watch stays in impact for Maui County and Hawaii Island into Sunday.
Expect a mixture of threats starting from vital flash flooding, damaging winds, robust to extreme thunderstorms, and snow and ice over the very best Big Island summits.
Southerly to southwesterly winds will likely be stronger from in the present day and will produce damaging wind gusts. South shore surf is peaking in the present day just under advisory ranges. Hawaii Island alongside Kona has been seeing powerful gusts up to 75 mph.
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Hour-by-hour timeline
Here is the most recent breakdown of the information from our First Alert Weather crew. We will likely be monitoring this storm all through the week so verify again for updates.
Saturday, March 14
Afternoon: Thunderstorms will likely be current over the japanese half of the state all through Saturday afternoon. The preliminary band of thunderstorms may stall over japanese Maui Saturday afternoon and night.
Pop-up and extra scattered thunderstorms are anticipated for Hawaii Island. However, robust south winds are nonetheless anticipated all through Saturday for Hawaii Island. Current fashions trace at greater rainfall totals for the Kona aspect of Hawaii Island. This will likely be significantly intense over Maui County and Hawaii Island, the place the primary rainband will stay practically stationary.
Night: Thunderstorms will even proceed throughout this era. The stalled band may stay between Maui and Hawaii Island all through the evening, exacerbating the flooding threat. The flooding risk will begin to lower for Kauai and Oahu all through Sunday.
Sunday, March 15
The flooding risk continues to lower for Kauai and Oahu all through Sunday. However, the bottom will likely be so saturated that any further rainfall could lead on to fast runoff and flash flooding. Any particular person pop-up storm could lead to extra runoff.
Flash flooding and breezy southwest winds are nonetheless anticipated for Maui County and Hawaii Island on Sunday, doubtlessly extending into Monday for Hawaii Island.
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