A tropical storm warning has been issued for Oahu, Hawai’i, as category 3 hurricane Lowell bears down on the state.<\/p>\n
An advisory from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued at 8am Monday Hawai’i time (6am Tuesday NZT) said conditions are expected to deteriorate in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
A hurricane warning is in effect for Kauai County, including the islands of Kauai and Niihau and the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument from Nihoa to French Frigate Shoals.<\/p>\n
The NOAA said on the forecast track, the core of Lowell is expected to pass near or just west of Niihau on Monday night and early Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“Gradual weakening is expected through Tuesday. However, Lowell is forecast to remain a hurricane as it passes near the Hawaiian Islands,” the statement said.<\/p>\n
“Lowell is then forecast to turn toward the northwest and slow down by early Wednesday after passing the Hawaiian Islands.”<\/p>\n
It said additional rainfall may produce significant flash flooding and mudslides, especially across Kauai county and portions of the Big Island.<\/p>\n
Several tornadoes are possible near Kauai and Niihau on Monday afternoon and evening, and a few tornadoes are also possible across the remainder of the Hawaiian Islands.<\/p>\n
The NOAA will issue its next advisory at 11am HST (9am Tuesday NZT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tropical storm warning has been issued for Oahu, Hawai’i, as category 3 hurricane Lowell bears down on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-593612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}