official data
Lowell holds Category 3 on aircraft; warnings flagged as likely later today
Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters keep Lowell a Category 3 while the storm turns north-northwest toward the Monument corridor — watches unchanged, but the intermediate bulletin now says warnings are likely later today.
Key facts
- Advisory
- Intermediate 41A · 200 AM HST Sun Sep 6 (1200 UTC) · EP122026
- Center
- 14.4N, 163.7W · ~595 mi SSW Lihue
- Winds / pressure
- 125 mph (Cat 3) · 943 mb (aircraft dropsonde)
- Motion
- NNW 330° / 6 mph
- Watches
- Unchanged: Hurricane Watch Nihoa–French Frigate Shoals; TS Watch Kauai County
- NEW
- Warnings are likely later today
- Live
- See live NHC HUD — do not freeze 41A as current
Note
Primary: NWS CPHC / NHC Intermediate Advisory 41A and Discussion 41.
What it is not: a Hawaii main-island landfall call; inventing surge/rain beyond product; a duplicate of Adv 35-40; SWPC; ECDO proof; a frozen live gauge after 1200 UTC.
Why it matters
Material step from Adv 40: Cat 4 to Cat 3 on aircraft, north-northwest turn, explicit warnings-likely language. Not a Hawaii landfall call.
Sources
Official data. Live values go to the HUD / source product.