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Overview

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

NOAA enhanced color photo showing the intensity of the eye, plus the cloud tops surrounding it. The tops of the thunderstorm cloud are extremely high as noted in the areas of black surrounding the eye, resulting from the immense heat content and humidity below. That means it's bearing an incredible amount of rainfall. Compare that against the size of the Big Island, and you'll see why it has emergency management officials concerned. Prepare for high winds, flying objects, excessive rain, flooding, debris, utility outages and road closures. Plan accordingly. If you need it, make sure you have it. Make sure you're in a sheltered location BEFORE winds exceed 39 MPH.

Click this link to get the latest forecast track from Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Pearl Harbor.

Hurricane/Tropical Storm Ignacio information

Information on Hurricane/Tropical Storm Ignacio 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 Ignacio
• Upper Level WV/IR - East Pacific - Latest Available - Large Scale
• Deep-Layer Wind Shear - East Pacific - Latest Available - Large Scale
• Computer Models for TS Ignacio
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Hawaii's Boater's Hurricane and Tsunami Safety Manual
  
  
• Travel Smart Hawaii
• Travel Safety Brochure, Travel Smart Hawaii
  
  
• NWS CPHC Hurricane Ignacio 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 is not scheduled to activate at this time.

• 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
TBD	TBD

Hawaii State Emergency Management Agency

HI EMA RACES operations is not scheduled at this time.

Hawaii County

CERT operations is TBD.

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.

Find out more by contacting:  rhashiro(remove this part)@hawaiiantel.net
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August 23, 2015. Updated: September 4, 2015

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