A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for Kauai County because of the potential effects of Hurricane Lowell.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Lowell was located at latitude 14.7\u00b0N and longitude 163.8\u00b0W which put the center about 580 miles (935 km) south-southwest of Lihue, Hawaii.\u00a0 Lowell was moving toward the north-northwest at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 150 m.p.h. (240 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 943 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Kauai County including Kauai and Niihau.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A Hurricane Warning is in effect for the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument from Nihoa to French Frigate Shoals.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Hurricane Lowell weakened to Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on Sunday morning.\u00a0 Lowell was still a major hurricane.\u00a0 A circular eye with a diameter of 30 miles (50 km) was still at the center of Lowell\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Hurricane Lowell.\u00a0 Storms near the center generated upper level divergence that pumped more mass away from the hurricane.\u00a0 The removal of mass in the upper levels was nearly equal to the convergence of mass in the lowers levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure did not change much on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n The distribution of wind speeds in Hurricane Lowell was fairly symmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 50 miles (80 km) from the center of Lowell\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 175 miles (280 km) from the center of Hurricane Lowell.<\/p>\n The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Hurricane Lowell is 23.6. The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 19.5 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 43.9.\u00a0 Hurricane Lowell is bigger and stronger than Hurricane Milton was when Milton hit Florida in 2024.<\/p>\n Hurricane Lowell will move through an environment that will be less favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Lowell will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 27\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind wind shear.\u00a0 However, Lowell will\u00a0 move into a mass of drier air that is southwest of Hawii.\u00a0 Hurricane Lowell is likely to continue to weaken slowly because of the effects of the drier air.\u00a0 Lowell will move southwest of an upper level low that is north of Hawaii on Monday.\u00a0 The upper level low will produce southwesterly winds that will cause the vertical wind shear to increase.\u00a0 The increase in vertical wind shear will cause Lowell to weaken faster on Monday.<\/p>\n Hurricane Lowell will move around the western end of a high pressure system that is over the Central North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Lowell toward the north during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of Hurricane Lowell will pass west of Kauai and Niihau on Monday night.<\/p>\n Bands in the eastern side of Lowell could bring strong winds and heavy rain to Kauai and Niihau on Monday night.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n Flood Watches are in effect for Kauai and Niihau.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Bands in the eastern periphery of Hurricane Lowell could also drop heavy rain on Maui, Lanai, , Molokai, Oahu, the Big Island of Hawaii, and Kahoolawe.<\/p>\n Flood Watches are in effect for Maui, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, the Big Island of Hawaii, and Kahoolawe.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Elsewhere, thunderstorms were decreasing Tropical Storm Karina and Hurricane Marie was weakening west of Baja California.<\/p>\n At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Karina was located at latitude 22.7\u00b0N and longitude 145.0\u00b0W which put the center about 680 miles (1100 km) east-northeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Karina was moving toward the northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 992 mb.<\/p>\n At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Marie was located at latitude 23.5\u00b0N and longitude 122.5\u00b0W which put the center about 800 miles (1290 km) west of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Marie was moving toward the northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 95 m.p.h. (150 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 977 mb.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for Kauai County because of the potential effects of Hurricane Lowell.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Lowell was located at latitude 14.7\u00b0N and longitude 163.8\u00b0W which put the center about 580 miles (935 km) south-southwest of Lihue, Hawaii.\u00a0 Lowell was moving toward the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[456,150,151,39,457,470,486,1296,23,1124,4218,2249,650,1178,2209,1185,1176,3689,2242,2248,1175,1177,1739,1186,1179,4207,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25160,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25159\/revisions\/25160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}