Hawaii should begin to feel the impact of Iselle later tonight. If this track holds, the islands will likely miss the brunt of that storm. The good news? The National Hurricane Center puts Julio northeast of Hawaii by 11 p.m. (Hawaii is six hours behind East Coast time.) The bad news: By early morning local time Thursday, Julio had strengthened into a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds at 100 mph.
" 'As long as you're prepared and listen to the warnings, you'll be OK,' she said, adding that the family with two girls, a baby and a dog is ready, if necessary, to head to the pet-friendly public shelter at Campbell High School in Ewa Beach."Īnd as if one hurricane wasn't enough, another one - Hurricane Julio - was right behind Iselle. "She said her husband was coming home from work early Wednesday to help move lanai furniture and other outdoor items inside. National Weather Service The forecast path of Hurricane Julio. She said that's a function of paying attention to authorities, using caution and being prepared. "Geron, looking at some modest waves lapping up on the beach next to her home, said she wasn't really nervous about the storm. Tracking about two days behind Iselle was hurricane Julio, which was upgraded from a tropical storm on Wednesday and could also bring heavy surf and high.
" 'The totes are just inside the door, ready to grab and go,' she said. "Andrea Geron and her family had their bags packed and ready Wednesday morning if and when authorities give the word to evacuate their Edgewater Drive home on the ocean at Iroquois Point. The Associated Press reports that authorities say the island is ready, but they are still urging residents to take this seriously and prepare. in Hawaii (which is six hours behind the eastern U.S.), the eye of the storm was 150 miles east-southeast of Hilo, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center reports.Īll of Hawaii County is under a hurricane warning, and some of the other islands are under tropical storm warnings and watches. The bright shading toward the center-left of the image is sunglint, the reflection of sunlight off the water and directly back at the satellite sensor.NOAA The forecast path of Hurricane Iselle as of Thursday afternoon, local time in Hawaii.Īt 2 p.m. Note that Iselle’s eyewall had grown less distinct the storm had descreased to category 2 intensity. The image below is a composite of three satellite passes over the tropical Pacific Ocean in the early afternoon. On August 5, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor on Suomi-NPP captured natural-color images of both Iselle and Hurricane Julio en route to Hawaii. Wind damage and heavy surf are likely, but heavy rainfall, flash floods, and landslides were the greatest concern as Iselle approached. The smaller, tighter rotating structures within the larger storm are often associated with tornadoes on land.įorecasters from the Central Pacific Hurricane Center predicted on August 6 that Iselle would make landfall on the island of Hawaii as a strong tropical storm or a category 1 hurricane late on August 7. Atmospheric researchers also detected signs of mesovortices near the eyewall. Iselle was at its peak intensity at the time and it was likely an annular hurricane. The MODIS image shows a nearly cloud-free eye in the center of a symmetrical storm there is solid ring of clouds around the center rather than intermittent, spiral bands. Iselle is now expected to remain a category 1 storm and make a landfall on the Big Island of Hawaii, which would make it. Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported that Iselle was a category 4 hurricane with sustained winds at 120 knots (140 miles or 220 kilometers per hour) and centered at 16.10° north latitude, 137.40° west longitude. In the central Pacific, we are still tracking Hurricanes Iselle and Julio. Shortly after the image was acquired, the U.S.
Hawaiian time (1940 Universal Time) on August 4, 2014. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of Hurricane Iselle over the Pacific Ocean at 10:40 a.m. Storms arriving from the east are a relative rarity, and landfalling storms are also pretty infrequent. Weather Underground provides tracking maps, 5-day forecasts, computer models, satellite imagery and detailed storm statistics for tracking and forecasting Tropical Storm Iselle Tracker. In early August 2014, not one but two hurricanes were headed for the Hawaiian Islands.