Hawaiʻi Tsunami Warnings

Significant Winter Storm to Bring Heavy Snow and Ice Impacts; Dangerously Cold Temperatures Expands Across the East; Severe Storm Threat in the Gulf States Sunday

A significant winter storm is underway, bringing widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies to New England through Monday. Extremely cold air will follow, prolonging dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts into next week. Severe thunderstorms may produce damaging gusts and tornadoes across the eastern Gulf Coast states Sunday morning and afternoon. Read More >

Hawaiʻi Tsunami Warnings

Hawaiʻi > Hawaiʻi Tsunami Warnings

The PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER (PTWC) provides the official tsunami warnings for the state of Hawaiʻi. Click here for PTWC messages.

EACH COUNTY is responsible for TSUNAMI EVACUATIONS, and issuing the ALL-CLEAR.

The Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) coordinates the statewide sounding of the first siren. Subsequent siren soundings are the responsibility of each County.

If Evacuation is necessary, the sirens will be activated. For current information, turn on and listen to local radio or television broadcasts

Local sources for information in Hawaiʻi include:

NOAA Weather Radio Broadcasts on following frequencies:
162.550 MHZ
162.400 MHZ

NOAA Weather Radio Broadcasts recording phone numbers:
                  Maui: 871-6706
                  Lanaʻi: 565-6033
                  Molokaʻi: 552-2477

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