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Overview

Early storm track forecasts had the track varying on the approach to the Hawaiian islands.

Hurricane/Tropical Storm Hilda information

Information on Hurricane/Tropical Storm Hilda and personal preparations can be found at these links:

• Central Pacific Hurricane Center
• NWS Forecast Office, Honolulu Watches and Warnings
• NWS Forecast Office, Honolulu
• NOAA Satellite Floater Channel assignment for TS Hilda
  
  
• JTWC Graphic
  
  
• University of Hawaii Meteorology Department
  
  
• Weather Underground NEXRAD, Kauai
• Weather Underground NEXRAD, Molokai
• Weather Underground NEXRAD, North Hawaii
• Weather Underground NEXRAD, South Hawaii
  
  
• NWS WFO HNL, Surf Forecast
  
  
• NWS WFO HNL, Local Storm Reports
• USGS Hydrological Data
• Honolulu International Airport Information
  
  
• FEMA
• Hawaii Emergency Management Agency
• Kauai Civil Defense
• (Oahu) Department of Emergency Management
• Maui County Civil Defense
• Hawaii County Civil Defense
• American Red Cross, Hawaii Chapter
  
  
• HAH Healthcomm
  
  
• Dept of Education Schools
  
  
• NWS NHC Hurricane Hilda Archive
• NWS CPHC Hurricane Hilda Archive

Amateur Radio

The amateur radio leadership of NWS SKYWARN and Hawaii (State) Emergency Management Agency RACES are coordinating a joint net on the state-wide VHF Repeater system for passing storm information to the National Weather Service Honolulu Forecast office at HIG Building, University of Hawaii at Manoa campus, with supplemental traffic for SCD and DEM. The repeaters of DEM RACES (Oahu County) and SCD were linked using ALL-STAR VOIP linking to create a eight node repeater cluster of both State-wide and around-the-island repeaters for Oahu for reporting and monitoring purposes.

The repeaters linked from State Civil Defense

• 147.02+ PL 103.5, Mt Haleakala, Maui 9,769 ft, currently standalone
• 147.04+ no PL, Mauna Loa, Big Island 8,200 ft, currently standalone
• 147.04+ PL 103.5, Lihue, Kauai, currently standalone
• 147.06+ PL 103.5, Diamond Head, Oahu
• 444.325+ PL 103.5, Waimanalo, Oahu
• 444.350+ PL 103.5, Diamond Head, Oahu

and Department of Emergency Management, Oahu County

• 146.76- no PL, Mokuleia, Oahu
• 146.98- PL 88.5, Frank Fasi Municipal Building, Oahu

Big island operations scheduled for:

• 146.82-, BIWARN Mauna Loa
• 146.76-, BIWARN Kulani Cone is currently stand-alone
• 146.86- PL 100.0, Naalehu
• 146.72-, HSVOAD Mauna Kea

HF operations were scheduled for:

• 3888 kHz LSB, Hawaii County
• 3993.5 kHz LSB, State Civil Defense RACES
• 7080 kHz USB, SKYWARN (Monitor this frequency first)
• 7088 kHz LSB, HI EMA/State Civil Defense RACES
• 7095 kHz LSB, Hawaii County
• 7178 kHz LSB, HI EMA/State Civil Defense RACES alternate
• 7195 kHZ LSB, Hawaii County
• TBD, DEM RACES
• TBD, American Red Cross
• TBD, Healthcomm

NWS SKYWARN

NWS SKYWARN was scheduled to activate from 6:00 pm Thursday August 13 through 10:00 pm Friday August 14. Operations was from 6:00 pm Thursday August 13 through 1:00 am Friday August 14.

• FLdigi mode MT63-1KL.
• Use form Storm Report and ensure the detail portion is filled out.

Encourage all amateur radio operators, whether SKYWARN or not, to call in reports of significant weather giving the following information:

• Callsign
• Name
• SKYWARN Number (if have one)
• Location
• Significant weather reports, specifically,
• heavy rain at a rate of an inch per hour or more lasting more than 15 minutes;
• any tornado, funnel cloud or waterspout,
• high winds strong enough to cause property damage;
• any reports of hail and size of the hail, for example, pea, quarter size;
• any time of flooding that is threatening or causing damage, flooding over roads, storm surge over roads, etc.;
• landslide, rock slides, mudslide blocking roads and damage to structures;
• electrical outages;
• any weather related death, injury, or significant damages.

Operators scheduled are:

Shift	Operators
Thu Aug 13 5:30 pm - Thu 15:30 pm	Jack (KH6DQ), Darrell (KH6XL), Ophemia (KH6OH), Clem (KH7HO), Mark (AH6PR) (7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.) go to the EARC 7:30 p.m. net, 146.880 to check in for any weather reports.
Thu Aug 13 10:15 pm – Fri 3:15 am	Clem (KH7HO), Ophemia (KH6OH), Mark (AH6PR) 10:15 p.m. to 12 midnight)
Fri Aug 14 3:00 am – 8:00 am	Fred (KH7CR), Betty (WH6GR)
Fri Aug 14 7:45 am – Fri 12:45 pm	OJack (KH6DQ), Tiff (AH6S), Jeff (AH6IX) (until 12 noon); Go on the Friendly Net on 7.188 at 9:00 a.m. to check for any weather reports.
Fri Aug 14 12:30 pm – Fri 5:30 am	Clem (KH7HO), Carter (KH6FV); Go to the 4 p.m. HF Afternoon net on 7.088 LSB to check for any weather reports.
Fri Aug 14 5:15 pm – Fri 10:15 pm	Randy (AH6Q), Keith (WH7GG) (arrives 6 p.m.), Mark (AH6PR) (6:45 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.); Go on the EARC 7:30 p.m. net, 146.880, to check in for any weather reports.

Hawaii State Emergency Management Agency

HI EMA RACES operations is currently not scheduled to activate .

Hawaii County

CERT operated on the Big Island. KHON2 reported according to Darryl Oliveira, Hawaii County Civil Defense administrator that about 40 amateur radio operators were providing field observations supplementing police and fire.

Maui County

Oahu County

DEM RACES operatons to start at TBD.

Information from City and County of Honolulu.

Kauai County

Healthcomm

Healthcomm is TBD. Healthcomm to be operational post-landfall.

Reminder

A reminder: Being prepared is a personal responsibility. Stock up ahead of time, and don't get caught in the mad rush to the store to buy stuff. The Star-Advertiser offers a list of items for preparedness and planning.

A reminder for the general population (and amateur radio operators alike) that the primary means of timely notification of an alert is via the NOAA National Weather Service Weather Alert radios.

KHON2 TV Reporting