official data
Lowell keeps weakening — 65 mph, 390 mi NNW of Lihue; Hawaii hazard is surf
Official Advisory 53 keeps Lowell a tropical storm moving away from Hawaii with no coastal watches left — winds down to 65 mph, center farther north-northwest of Kauai, and the only land hazard still printed is life-threatening surf.
Key facts
- Advisory
- 53 · EP122026 · 1100 PM HST Tue Sep 8 / 0900 UTC Wed Sep 9 · Tropical Storm
- Center
- 27.3N, 161.5W · ~390 mi NNW Lihue
- Winds / pressure
- 65 mph (55 kt) · 981 mb
- Motion
- N 350° / 14 mph
- Watches
- None — no coastal watches or warnings in effect
- Land hazard
- Surf / rip currents only (next day or so on exposed coasts)
- TS-force winds
- Outward up to ~255 mi from center
- Outlook
- Gradual weakening; Discussion day-5 post-tropical ~30 kt by 14/0600Z
- vs Adv 52
- 70→65 mph · 978→981 mb · 310→390 mi NNW · rain line dropped
- Live
- See live NHC HUD — do not freeze Adv 53 as current
Note
Primary: NWS CPHC Honolulu / NHC Miami Tropical Storm Lowell Advisory Number 53 and Discussion Number 53 (Forecasters Katz/Reinhart), plus TCM and CurrentStorms.
What it is not: a Hawaii main-island landfall; a re-ship of Adv 35–41A or Adv 52; inventing rain totals (Adv 53 does not list rainfall); SWPC; ECDO proof; a frozen live gauge after 0900 UTC.
Why it matters
Official departure card vs midnight Adv 52. Cleanup corridors still answer to local NWS products — not a re-lit Cat-5 memory.
Sources
- CPHC/NHC Tropical Storm Lowell Advisory 53
- Archive Adv 53
- Discussion TCD
- Archive Discussion 53
- Forecast/Advisory TCM
- NHC CurrentStorms.json
Official data. Live values go to the HUD / source product.