The chaos of 2020 continues apace
And now, for 2020’s next act… Photo: VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images : Hawaii issued tornado warnings this morning, as if there weren’t enough going on already. Hawaii has not weathered any tornado warnings since 2008, so a pair of them within the span of five hours came as a shock to residents.
“I had to grab my glasses for this one because I saw ‘tornado’ and I thought, ‘This must be the wrong alert,’” John Alderete, a resident of Kauai, told the Washington Post. “I had been hearing the flooding alerts pretty much all night long.” The first warning went out around 1:30 a.m., when severely stormy weather turned into a strong rotation off the coast of Niihau. The second came in just before 6 a.m., for a rotation near Kauai. According to Hawaii Public Radio, the thunderstorms responsible for creating these tornado conditions ultimately dissipated, although Kauai remains under a flash flood warning. The National Weather Service did not record damage from the storms.
Hawaii does not tend to see many tornadoes: 42 were reported between 1950 and 2018, whereas Texas — one of the states tornadoes love most — usually records between 140 and 150 each year. Tuesday’s warnings resulted from a “Kona low,” a specific type of low-pressure system that forms west of the islands, potentially bringing pouring rains and high winds.
According to the Post, the last time a tornado actually touched down in Hawaii was 2015, when a land spout formed over the mountains of Oahu. Generally speaking, Hawaii doesn’t get a lot of severe weather, but so far, 2020 is a year of stunning anomalies. We continue to brace for whatever calamity it cooks up next.
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