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ハワイを外れたハリケーン、それでも猛威
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英語の原文から翻訳されています。
初期の数値報道では、陸上で起きたことと海上で起きたことが混同されていた。ABCは風速が100 mphを超えたと報じ、NBCは最大瞬間風速が85 mphだったと報じた。どちらも実際の現象を指してはいたが、それぞれ別のものだった。123 陸上で公式に観測された最大風速は、9月7日午後11時35分に標高3,273フィートのプウ・ルアで記録された最大瞬間風速92 mphだった。2 ほかにナウィリウィリで87 mph、ワイメアで85 mph、バーキング・サンズとリフエ空港で84 mphの最大瞬間風速を観測した。リフエ空港の持続風速は約53~59 mphで、最大瞬間風速は79~84 mphだった。2 公式の陸上観測所で100 mph以上の最大瞬間風速や、それに相当する持続風速が記録された場所はない。「100 mph超」という数字は、外洋上での嵐の風速、または嵐の到来前に予報された西部山地の斜面の風速を示したもので、島で確認された観測値ではなかった。2
風がもたらさなかった被害を、水がもたらした
場所
- 01ホオナ・ロード、ポイプ、カウアイ島
- 02ポート・アレン、カウアイ島
- 03ケカハ、カウアイ島
- 04ニイハウ島
海岸近くで、信じられないほどの被害
ローウェルはかすめて通過、被害は残った
ジョシュ・グリーン知事は9月3日、ローウェルやその他の気象システムを対象に州全域の非常事態を宣言し、州兵、主要災害基金および関連権限を11月1日まで発動した。14 9月9日にカウアイ島を視察した後、同島の被害額は当初の推計で4億ドルを超え、2026年初めのハリケーン「ララ」を上回ると述べた。また、南岸と北岸の海岸線に甚大な被害が出た一方、内陸部の被害は比較的小さかったと説明した。1221 同日、グリーン知事はトランプ大統領に対し、カウアイ郡とマウイ郡を対象とする大統領重大災害宣言を迅速に出すよう要請し、通常行われる合同の予備被害評価を省略するよう求めた。9月10日朝の時点で承認されていなかった。14
不明な点
- コロア付近で発生した可能性のある事象を含め、竜巻は公式に確認されていない
- 最終的な被害総額と、カウアイ島の孤立地域で全面復旧する日程は未確定
今後の展開
- カウアイ郡とマウイ郡を対象とする連邦政府の災害宣言が承認されるかどうか
- 電力復旧後の海岸線調査で被害推計がさらに上がるかどうか
ローウェルはすでに遠ざかっていた。9月9日午後遅くの勧告時点で、中心はリフエの北西約610マイルにあり、最大風速は持続風速50 mphまで弱まり、西に進んでいた。ハワイに沿岸の注意報や警報は残っていなかった。4 命に関わる高波と浸水は最接近時にピークを迎え、中心が離れた後も約1日続いた。9月9日と10日には高波警報が期限切れとなるか解除に向かっていたが、依然として高い波とうねり、離岸流の危険が指摘されていた。当局は復旧作業が始まる中、海岸に近づかないよう警告を続けた。30 初期のあるネットワーク報道は、最も大きな被害がハワイ島のポエ地区で起きたと誤って伝えた。倒壊した住宅と90%の停電が確認されたのは、ポイプ海岸沿いのカウアイ島だった。2023
情報源33
ABC News
- HeyDay News
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https://www.hawaiinewsnow.comhawaiinewsnow.com2
The Weather Channelweather.com2
ABC News最初動画1本1
Al Jazeeraaljazeera.com1
America's Electric Cooperativeselectric.coop1
放送時の内容
- Hurricane Lowell never touched land — and it still tore homes off their foundations on Kauai.
- The storm's center stayed roughly forty miles west of Niihau. But its western edge alone knocked out power to ninety percent of the island, buried a resort's first floor in sand, and pushed the damage estimate above four hundred million dollars.
- The storm has moved off — the shoreline assessment is far from finished. So what does the destruction actually add up to?
- The "over one hundred miles per hour" figure described the storm's winds over open water — or a pre-storm forecast for the western mountain slopes. It was never a verified reading on any island. On land, the highest officially measured gust was ninety-two miles per hour at Puu Lua, three thousand two hundred seventy-three feet up, at eleven thirty-five on the night of September seventh. Nawiliwili gusted to eighty-seven, Waimea to eighty-five, Barking Sands and Lihue Airport to eighty-four. Sustained winds at Lihue Airport ran about fifty-three to fifty-nine.
- The center passed about forty miles west of Niihau — close enough that Kauai and Niihau sat inside the storm's right-front quadrant, where the most destructive winds and surge ride. Oahu, farther east, caught a lighter blow.
- What the storm lacked in wind, it made up in water. South-facing Kauai shores saw surf of twenty to thirty feet. Waves topping twenty-five feet demolished homes and carried cars away in Poipu — and riding a high tide and a one-to-three-foot storm surge, the combination, not any single ingredient, is what destroyed so much.
- The first floor of the Sheraton Kauai Resort was buried in sand. Along Hoona Road near Baby Beach, homes were pushed off their foundations or destroyed — one lifted clear, split in two, part of the structure thrown across the street. One witness counted five or six homes destroyed on a single street. Cars were carried across a resort parking lot. Port Allen Small Boat Harbor took extensive pier and vessel damage, and the state had to clear rocks off Kaumualii Highway in Kekaha.
- Rain piled onto the island's wetter slopes. Wainiha collected 19.89 inches. Kilohana saw about twenty, and Mount Waialeale and Mohihi Crossing fifteen to eighteen. Lower elevations and the other islands mostly saw four to ten inches — so the figure quoted as "nearly a foot and a half" describes the Kauai peaks, not a statewide average. The rain drove flash flooding and mudslides, mostly on Kauai, and that threat isn't over.
- Two people died. On Kauai, a seventy-four-year-old man from Kalaheo was found dead on the morning of September ninth along the shoreline fronting Nomilu Fishpond, between Poipu and Eleele. Officials say the death appears related to storm surge. An autopsy is pending, and foul play isn't suspected — he'd been reported missing the day before. On Oahu, a man living at Sherwood Beach in Waimanalo was killed when a large tree fell on his campsite. Police are treating it as an unattended death with no foul play suspected. At least one more injury has been reported on Kauai.
- The grid took the heaviest hit. The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative lost power to roughly ninety to ninety-two percent of its customers. By late Wednesday, crews had restored about a quarter — roughly nine thousand customers — with hospitals the priority and most of those back online. Isolated north-shore and far-west areas may wait days to a few weeks. Mutual-aid crews started arriving Thursday. On Oahu, outages peaked near twenty-one thousand and were nearly fully restored by Wednesday, with only a few hundred still dark.
- Governor Green toured Kauai on Wednesday and put the initial damage estimate for the island above four hundred million dollars — more than Hurricane Lala earlier this year. He issued a statewide state of emergency back on September third, before the storm arrived, activating the National Guard and the Major Disaster Fund through November first. That same day, he sent an expedited request to President Trump for a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration for Kauai and Maui counties, seeking to skip the usual joint preliminary damage assessment. It had not been approved as of this morning.
- The state's first tornado watch went out the afternoon of the seventh, in effect overnight, with warnings following. As of Tuesday, none had been officially confirmed — though one account suggested a possible brief tornado near Koloa. The heaviest damage came in a single passing, and recovery has been an uneven grind ever since.
- Lowell has already moved on. By late Wednesday it was about six hundred ten miles northwest of Lihue, still packing fifty-mile-per-hour sustained winds, moving west and weakening. No coastal watches or warnings remain for Hawaii. The dangerous surf and rip currents that drove the surge peaked during closest approach and lingered about a day after the center left. By Wednesday and Thursday the high-surf warnings had expired or were winding down, though elevated seas and rip-current risk are still being flagged — and authorities keep telling people to stay off the shoreline as cleanup begins.
- One early account got the location of the worst damage wrong, placing the flattened homes and the near-total power loss in a neighborhood called Poe on the island of Hawaii. The confirmed destruction and the ninety-percent outage were on Kauai, along the Poipu shoreline.
- So what does the destruction add up to? The governor's initial estimate for Kauai alone is above four hundred million dollars, and the request for a federal disaster declaration is still pending. The final number won't be known until the grid is restored and the shoreline assessment is complete. Two people are dead. Ninety percent of one island went dark. And a hurricane that never touched Hawaii has become one of the most consequential tropical cyclones to hit the state in decades.
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