Oahu sat under a tropical storm warning, not a hurricane warning. [1] The National Hurricane Center's advisory 049 is the product name. [1] Hawaii News Now filed the same split: hurricane warning on Kauai and Niihau, flood watch across the islands. [2] The difference is the product name. Print tropical storm. Do not print Kauai's hurricane as Oahu's.

Kauai's hurricane warning is a different island. Leave Tuesday's 90 percent dark to Kauai's Tuesday. Honolulu sits in a different product. Print the split. Print not a merged Hawaii.

Print the product. Monday is not an Oahu hurricane warning. Tropical storm remains tropical storm. Print the product as Monday's named Oahu hold. A flood watch is still not a hurricane. Print Oahu as still not Kauai. Straight products hold; Monday holds them straight. Print tropical storm as still the named warning.

Tropical-storm warnings trigger different protocols than hurricane warnings: fewer sirens, same caution. Honolulu prepares lighter than Lihue. Monday keeps the products straight.

Lighter Honolulu isn't a quieter Kauai; Monday splits them. Splits keep products honest. Lihue's order is shelter, not this watch.

Tropical-storm warnings trigger fewer sirens than hurricane warnings. Honolulu prepares lighter than Lihue. Monday keeps the products straight.

Advisory 049 still splits the chain: tropical storm over Oahu, hurricane over Kauai and Niihau. Hawaii News Now filed that difference plus a flood watch. Honolulu is not Lihue. Monday keeps the products in separate sentences.
Oahu's product is a tropical storm, not a hurricane. The islands do not share a warning. Advisory 049 still splits the chain.

Monday's Oahu product is not Lihue's hurricane. The islands do not share a warning. Advisory 049 still splits the chain.

-- KENJI NAKAMURA, Tokyo