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Hurricane Iwa, taken from the Hawaiian language name for the frigatebird (ʻiwa, lit. "Thief"), was at the time the costliest hurricane to affect the state of Hawaiʻi . Iwa was the twenty-third tropical storm and the twelfth and final hurricane of the 1982 Pacific hurricane season .
Iwa was the very last hurricane of the 1982 season, forming in November and causing $312 million in damage, which would convert to $1 billion in damage when adjusted for inflation to 2024.
At the time, Hurricane Iwa was the costliest storm to hit the state, [27] with damage totaling $312 million (1982 USD, $985 million 2024 USD). [8] Three days after Hurricane Iwa passed the state, Governor George Ariyoshi declared the islands of Kauai and Niihau as disaster areas [ 34 ] with President Ronald Reagan following suit on November 28 ...
Hawaii’s Hurricane Iwa in 1982. A rare hurricane for that late in the season, Category 1 Iwa impacted the Hawaiian islands Nov. 23, 1982, two days before Thanksgiving. At the time it was the ...
Hurricane Iniki was the most powerful hurricane to strike the Hawaiian Islands. A Hawaiian hurricane is a tropical cyclone that forms in the Pacific Ocean and affects the Hawaiian Islands . Hawaii lies in the central Pacific, where about four or five tropical cyclones appear each year, although as many as fifteen have occurred, such as in the ...
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Fern Grotto's decline began when it was hit by Hurricane Iwa in 1982. It was then nearly destroyed Kauai was hit by Hurricane Iniki in 1992. Most of the ferns hanging from the grotto were torn from the rocks and, though much of the plant life has rebounded, the grotto has had a difficult time recovering.
These Pacific hurricanes (from the eastern and central Pacific hurricane basins) all caused their name to be retired. Hurricane names are retired due to the notoriety of the storm to which they are attached (after a nation impacted by the storm lobbies the World Meteorological Organization). See naming of tropical cyclones.