August 7, 2014
1330.17z
UNISYS Goes West Water Vapor Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
Hawaii has never received a dual storm system in it's history.
Hawaii (click here) braced for its first direct hurricane hit in 22 years Thursday as Iselle headed toward the Big Island with a second storm on its tails. Bottled water and supplies were in high demand at stores ahead of the Category 1 storm’s expected impact on Thursday night. “It’s a fairly potent hurricane by Hawaiian standards,” Weather Channel meteorologist Kevin Roth said. Heavy rains totaling 5 to 8 inches, winds gusting up to 80 mph and flooding were expected, before Iselle was set to weaken to a tropical storm by the time it hit Honolulu at about 9 a.m. local time (3 p.m. ET) on Friday. Tropical storm warnings were issued for Oahu, Kauai and Maui, and a flash flood warning was in effect for the entire island chain....
This is NOAA's Satellite (click here)
This is a NOAA satellite from the Central Pacific that visualizes the larger circulation system west of Hawaii. I haven't found it documented anywhere in the east or west Pacific records to date.
This is it in the West Central Pacific satellite image. It is on the right side of the image. It dwarfs the two hurricanes now in route to Hawaii.
Here it is:
The track of Genevieve was just south of Hawaii. I would have been shocked if it wasn't documented somewhere.
1330.17z
UNISYS Goes West Water Vapor Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
Hawaii has never received a dual storm system in it's history.
Hawaii (click here) braced for its first direct hurricane hit in 22 years Thursday as Iselle headed toward the Big Island with a second storm on its tails. Bottled water and supplies were in high demand at stores ahead of the Category 1 storm’s expected impact on Thursday night. “It’s a fairly potent hurricane by Hawaiian standards,” Weather Channel meteorologist Kevin Roth said. Heavy rains totaling 5 to 8 inches, winds gusting up to 80 mph and flooding were expected, before Iselle was set to weaken to a tropical storm by the time it hit Honolulu at about 9 a.m. local time (3 p.m. ET) on Friday. Tropical storm warnings were issued for Oahu, Kauai and Maui, and a flash flood warning was in effect for the entire island chain....
This is NOAA's Satellite (click here)
This is a NOAA satellite from the Central Pacific that visualizes the larger circulation system west of Hawaii. I haven't found it documented anywhere in the east or west Pacific records to date.
This is it in the West Central Pacific satellite image. It is on the right side of the image. It dwarfs the two hurricanes now in route to Hawaii.
Here it is:
The track of Genevieve was just south of Hawaii. I would have been shocked if it wasn't documented somewhere.
Date: 25 JUL-07 AUG 2014
Hurricane-4 GENEVIEVE
ADV LAT LON TIME WIND PR STAT
1 12.20 -134.00 07/25/06Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
2 12.30 -135.00 07/25/12Z 40 - TROPICAL STORM
3 12.20 -135.80 07/25/18Z 40 - TROPICAL STORM
4 12.10 -135.90 07/26/00Z 40 - TROPICAL STORM
5 12.10 -136.40 07/26/06Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
6 12.20 -136.80 07/26/12Z 30 - TROPICAL DEPRESSION
7 12.40 -137.50 07/26/18Z 30 - TROPICAL DEPRESSION
8 12.50 -138.80 07/27/00Z 30 - TROPICAL DEPRESSION...
...37 11.90 -174.60 08/06/06Z 50 - TROPICAL STORM
38 12.80 -176.80 08/06/05Z 65 990 HURRICANE-1
39 13.50 -178.40 08/06/11Z 75 980 HURRICANE-1
40 14.10 -179.70 08/07/03Z 120 - HURRICANE-4
41 14.50 179.80 08/07/06Z 130 - HURRICANE-4
+12 15.50 177.70 08/07/18Z 145 - HURRICANE-5
+24 17.20 176.00 08/08/06Z 140 - HURRICANE-5
+36 19.50 175.30 08/08/18Z 130 - HURRICANE-4
+48 22.10 175.10 08/09/06Z 120 - HURRICANE-4
+72 26.60 173.90 08/10/06Z 95 - HURRICANE-2