Hurricane Lane provides record rain as cell sites remain almost 100% operational

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Fortunately for the Hawaiian Islands, the storm that began as Hurricane Lane and ended as a tropical depression, had next to no impact on communications, according the final report of the FCC yesterday that showed that only eight cell sites were out of a total of 1,297, representing only a 0.6% outage.

Cable systems  and wireline outages were 3,991, down from 16,417 on Saturday.

However, Hurricane Lane drenched parts of Hawaii with 3-4 feet of rainfall.  One weather station reported the third-highest “total rainfall from a tropical cyclone in the United States since 1950,” according to the National Weather Service says. The slow-moving storm caused floods and landslides as it moved west of the islands, back out over the Pacific Ocean

Other information provided by the FCC included:
Television stations status:

  • 15 TV stations are reporting as operational (KAAH-TV, KAII-TV, KGMB, KHAW-TV, KHET, KHNL,

KHON-TV, KHVO, KITV, KKAI, KMAU, KMEB, KUPU, KWBN, and KWHM).

  • 1 TV station is reporting as out of service (KLEI-TV).

FM Radio stations status:

  • 37 FM radio stations are reporting as operational (K204GM, K244EO, K267BW, K268BE, K298BA,

K300AT, KAGB, KAOY, KAPA, KBGX, KCCN, KCIF, KESU-LP, KINW, KITH, KJKS, KJMD, KJMQ, KKBG,

KKOA, KLHI, KLUA, KMWB, KNAN, KNKR-LP, KNWB, KONI, KORL, KPHW, KPOA, KPVS, KQMY,

KRKH, KRTR, KTOH, KUKE-LP, and KWXX-FM).

  • 6 FM radio station are reporting as being out of service (K233DC, KHKU, KKHI, KLEO, KLUU, and

KMKV).

AM Radio stations status:

  • 13 AM radio stations are reporting as operational (KAOI, KCIK, KHKA, KKEA, KKNE, KMVI, KNDI,

KNUI, KPHI, KPRP, KPUA, KRYL, and KZOO).

  • 1 AM radio station is reporting as being out of service (K246BR).

As of 1:50 AM HST on August 26, FCC direct monitoring of AM broadcasters indicated 26 of 26

monitored stations were on the air, including all four local primary EAS stations (KNUI/550, KSSK/590,

KPUA/670, and KHLO/850). Stations confirmed operational by county were:

Hawaii: KHLO 850, KIPA 1060, KKON 790, KPUA 670

Kauai: KUAI 720

Maui: KAOI 1110, KCIK 740, KEWE 1240, KMVI 900, KNUI 550, KUAU 1570

Honolulu: KGU 760, KHKA 1500, KHNR 690, KHRA 1460, KHVH 830, KIKI 990, KKEA 1420, KKNE

940, KLHT 1040, KNDI 1270, KREA 1540, KSSK 590, KUPA 1370, KWAI 1080, KPRP 650