{"id":50052,"date":"2023-01-28T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=50052"},"modified":"2023-01-30T16:41:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T16:41:01","slug":"flash-flooding-across-parts-of-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/50052","title":{"rendered":"Flash flooding across parts of Hawai&#8217;i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/01\/230128_goes18_infrared__HI_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/01\/hi_ir-20230128_205956.png\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em> &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed convection &#8212; which was focused along a quasi-stationary <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/01\/230128_East_Pacific_surface_analyses_anim.gif\"><strong>surface trough axis<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; that was producing periods of moderate to heavy rainfall across parts of Hawai&#8217;i on 28 January 2023. Numerous Flash Flood Warnings were issued by NWS Honolulu during this time, frequently for the island of Maui (where the storms appeared to be back-building at times).<\/p>\n<p>During the daytime hours, 1-minute GOES-18 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> also displayed the Total Precipitable Water (TPW) derived product (in cloud-free areas) &#8212; with TPW values as high as 1.5-1.6 inches in the vicinity of the surface trough axis.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/01\/230128_goes18_visible_totalPrecipitableWater_HI_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/01\/hi_vis_tpw-20230128_205956.png\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-18 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window images which included an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that these storms produced occasional lighting over the Big Island, Maui and Moloka&#8217;i.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/01\/230128_goes18_infrared_glmFlashExtentDensity_HI_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/01\/hi_ir_fed-20230128_205956.png\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window images, with an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>The <a href=\"https:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mtpw2\/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&amp;prod=global2&amp;timespan=48hrs&amp;anim=html5\"><strong>MIMIC-TPW<\/strong><\/a> product <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> displayed the plume of moisture that was flowing northeastward across the island chain during te 27-28 January period.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/01\/230127_230128_mimicTPW_East_Pacific_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/01\/comp20230128.230000_tpw.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"470\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC-TPW product during the 27-28 January period [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/01\/230127_230128_mimicTPW_East_Pacific_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared images (above) showed convection &#8212; which was focused along a quasi-stationary surface trough axis &#8212; that was producing periods of moderate to heavy rainfall across parts of Hawai&#8217;i on 28 January 2023. Numerous Flash Flood Warnings were issued by NWS Honolulu during this time, frequently for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":50055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,114,16,30,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glm","category-goes-18","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-lightning","category-microwave"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50052"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50057,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50052\/revisions\/50057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}