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Hurricane/Tropical Storm Jimena - August 28, 2015+

Amateur radio operators throughout Hawaii prepare to respond to Hurricane/Tropical Storm Jimena that arrives in Hawaiian waters on TBD. This page provides progress information on the event. It is updated infrequently, so check the latest advisories from the National Weather Services and Emergency Management agencies. Last update is Sun Sept 13, 12:30 pm

Activities are chronicled here. It's not a question of "If", it's a question of "When".

Enjoy, and feel free to drop me an e-mail if you have any questions.


Overview

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

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Hurricane/Tropical Storm Jimena information

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

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 activation is TBD.

  • 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 TBD .

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.

The Star-Advertiser Reporting

August 28, 2015, updated September 15, 2015

These are links to articles from The Star-Advertiser.

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