Severe Threat Ended for Today

The severe threat has ended today. We will mostly likely see the rain continue through about 8PM. After that, the rain will die off until tomorrow afternoon when we will see some more thunderstorms. It will not be as severe though, which is a good thing since we really need that rain.

Today on the island, we officially received 1.09" of rain from our weather station. Hopefully, we can get some more of that rain tomorrow. At one point this afternoon, we had a rain rate of 65" per hour. That is some serious heavy rainfall!

If you heard about the funnel cloud, we did indeed have a funnel cloud. It wasn't officially a tornado because no damage was reported and there was no touchdown. Furthermore, it was reported by the public and the emergency manager didn't confirm the existence of the funnel cloud. Also, there was no Tornado Warning. The National Weather Service didn't think it was that big of a threat in the scheme of things... very high winds, cloud to ground lightning, and small hail.