A hurricane warning remained in effect Monday for Kauai County, including Niihau, with a tropical storm warning for Oahu, as Lowell's core still tracked west of the islands. [1] Sunday this paper printed Category 3 warnings and an Iniki rhyme. Monday the rhyme is still a forecast.

The National Hurricane Center placed the center about 90 miles west of Lihue at 11 p.m. HST, moving north-northeast at 18 mph, with hurricane-force winds extending up to 70 miles from the center. [1] Hawaii's first tornado watch covered Kauai. [1] Additional rain of 4 to 8 inches was expected on top of what had already fallen. [1] Closest approach was still described as near or just west of Niihau overnight into Tuesday. [1] That sentence is a clock. It is not a damage ledger.

Do not print Wednesday's outages as Monday's weather. The warning is the news. The island has not yet filed the pass.

Hurricane-force winds extending 70 miles from the center is a radius, not a landfall. [1] Niihau sits in that geometry. Honolulu sits in a different product.

Rain totals already on the island are not Monday's forecast rain. [1] The advisory separates what has fallen from what is still priced.

Iniki is a rhyme the islands know. [1] A rhyme is not an impact survey. Those come after the pass.

-- DARA OSEI, London