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August 1993: Hurricane Fernanda brought heavy surf of up to 15 feet (4.6 m) on the east facing beaches from the Big Island to Kauai. Wave heights between 15 and 20 feet (4.6 and 6.1 m) was reported on Kauai. Shoreline roads on all islands were damaged and some homes flooded. [24]
Children play in the rubble left by the fury of Hurricane Iniki, Sept. 15, 1992, at Brennecke's Beach near Poipu Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Kauai. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
The phone lines to the county seat of Kauai County, Lihue, were broken during the hurricane. [19] The Aloha Theater in Hanapepe had been flooded by up to three feet of water. [20] Reports from the five major islands indicated that less than 50 homes had been damaged during the storm [21] and roughly 12 of them being destroyed on Kauai alone. [22]
Hurricane Iniki (/ iː ˈ n iː k iː / ee-NEE-kee; Hawaiian: ʻiniki meaning "strong and piercing wind") was a hurricane that struck the island of Kauaʻi on September 11, 1992. It was the most powerful hurricane to strike Hawaiʻi in recorded history, and the only hurricane to directly affect the state during the 1992 Pacific hurricane season. [1]
The hurricane season in the Hawaiian Islands is roughly from June through November, when hurricanes and tropical storms are most probable in the North Pacific. These storms tend to originate off the coast of Mexico (particularly the Baja California peninsula ) and track west or northwest towards the islands.
The hurricane devastated the islands of Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, and Oʻahu with wind gusts exceeding 100 mph (160 km/h) and rough seas exceeding 30 feet (9.1 m) in height. The first significant hurricane to hit the Hawaiian Islands since statehood in 1959, Iwa severely damaged or destroyed 2,345 buildings, including 1,927 houses, leaving 500 people ...
First and one of only three known hurricanes to make landfall on the Hawaiian Islands. [6] "California tropical storm" 1939: Only known modern landfall in California [7] "Cabo San Lucas hurricane" 1941: Deadliest hurricane to hit Cabo San Lucas in the 20th century [8] "Mazatlán hurricane" 1943: One of the strongest hurricanes to hit Mazatlán ...