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Big Island alerts today

Every official alert that covers Hawaiʻi Island, newest first: National Weather Service warnings, watches and advisories, Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense road closures and shelter openings, and Hawaiian Electric storm and outage updates. New road closures from the last week show here; the full list is on the Big Island road closures page.

As of 5:00 PM HST, the National Weather Service has no watches, warnings or advisories in effect for Hawaiʻi Island.

What the alert words mean

The National Weather Service uses these terms precisely, and the difference between two of them is the difference between packing and leaving.

  • Watch means conditions are possible, usually within 48 hours. This is your window to prepare, fuel up and decide where you would go.
  • Warning means conditions are expected, usually within 36 hours. Finish preparations and be where you intend to ride it out.
  • Advisory means conditions are expected to be inconvenient or hazardous, but below warning criteria.
  • Emergency, used rarely, means a particularly dangerous situation is underway.

A watch upgrading to a warning is not a small change in wording. Treat it as the signal to stop preparing and start doing.

Plan before the next one

Non-emergency numbers

Every number here was read off the agency's own page on the date shown. Agencies do change them, so if one does not connect, use the source link beside it.

For a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

Confirm before you travel. Nothing on this page is a live shelter roster. Shelter and refuge openings change hour to hour during an event and are announced by the county, not here. Call your county agency or check its official channels before you leave for any site.

The one county with live incident data

Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense publishes road closures, hazards, evacuations, flooding and shelter locations as live map layers that county staff edit during an event. That is why the live map is far richer on Hawaiʻi Island than on the other three counties, which publish static geodata only.

It also means the data is only as fresh as the last edit. During the response to Tropical Storm Lala the county shelter layer went 28 hours without an update while the event was still active. The live map flags any layer older than six hours for exactly this reason. A county roster is a report, not a live reading.

A refuge area is a last resort, not a first choice. Your own home, a friend or family member's home, or even your workplace may be safer than a public hurricane refuge area, because those are ordinary buildings that were never built or retrofitted to a storm shelter standard. Pick two places outside your evacuation zone now, and go to a public site only if you have no safer option. This is the county's own guidance.

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