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What to know about Hawaii's Big Island under rare hurricane landfall threat as Tropical Storm Lala strengthens

Hawaii's Big Island under rare hurricane landfall threat as Tropical Storm Lala strengthens HONOLULU (AP) — Tropical Storm Lala is expected to strengthen to a hurricane before reaching Hawaii’s Big Island this weekend, forecasters said Friday, bringing heavy…

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Hawaii's Big Island under rare hurricane landfall threat as Tropical Storm Lala strengthens HONOLULU (AP) — Tropical Storm Lala is expected to strengthen to a hurricane before reaching Hawaii’s Big Island this weekend, forecasters said Friday, bringing heavy…

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The National Hurricane Center said Lala should be …

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Claim 1: “It’s the third storm in …”
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Two independent sources explicitly state that Hurricane Lowell was the third system/storm to threaten or affect Hawaii in a short timeframe (approximately three weeks), following Lala and Moke.
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web search NEUTRAL — Lowell is one of 13 named storms so far this Pacific hurricane season. In an average year, the region sees roughly 15 named storms — and there are still three months until hurricane season ends on Nov…
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09/03/weather/hurricane-lo…
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web search NEUTRAL — Hawaii has declared a state of emergency as powerful Hurricane Lowell makes its way toward the islands, with the first impacts expected as soon as Monday. The storm is the third system in just over th…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/06/hawaii-hurri…
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web search NEUTRAL — Lowell may be the third storm to affect parts of Hawaii this El Niño-fueled Pacific hurricane season, following Lala, then Moke, both of which brushed parts of the islands in about a week's time in Au…
https://weather.com/2026/09/06/storms/hurricane/hurricane-lo…
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Claim 2: “Tropical Storm Lala is expected to strengthen to a hurricane before reaching Hawaii’s Big Island this weekend”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Tropical Storm Lala was forecast to strengthen into a hurricane before reaching Hawaii's Big Island. Wikipedia also confirms Hurricane Lala eventually hit the Big Island.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Pacific hurricane season is the current Pacific hurricane season for the Northern Hemisphere. The season officially began on May 15, 2026, and will end on November 30, 2026. For the Central P…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Pacific_hurricane_season
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hurricane Lala was the first hurricane to directly hit the Big Island since an unnamed hurricane in 1871 and the third-wettest tropical cyclone to affect the U.S. state of Hawaii on record. The ninth …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Lala
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A Hawaiian hurricane is a tropical cyclone that forms in the Pacific Ocean and affects the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii lies in the central Pacific, where about four or five tropical cyclones appear each …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hawaii_hurricanes
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Claim 3: “The National Hurricane Center said Lala should be …”
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Multiple sources confirm the National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued warnings and forecasts regarding Tropical Storm Lala, including a specific forecast for it to strengthen by August 15, 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2023 Pacific hurricane season was an active and highly destructive Pacific hurricane season which went on to become the costliest on record, primarily due to Hurricane Otis. In the Eastern Pacific…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Pacific_hurricane_season
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of November 2025, there have been 1,753 tropical cyclones of at least tropical storm intensity, 972 at hurricane intensity, and 342 at major hurricane intensity within the Atlantic Ocean since 1851…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlantic_hurricane_rec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is the division of the United States' NOAA/National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting tropical weather systems between the Prime Meridian and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Hurricane_Center
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Claim 4: “Hawaii is under a state of emergency with powerful Hurricane Lowell set to bear down on its western islands Monday”
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Three independent web search results confirm that Hawaii declared a state of emergency due to Hurricane Lowell and that the storm was expected to impact or pass near the western islands around Monday.
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web search NEUTRAL — According to the forecast, Lowell will reach Hawaii as a category 2 hurricane. Its center could pass roughly 130 miles west of Ni’ihau or 170 miles west of Kauai between Monday evening and Tuesday mor…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/06/hawaii-hurri…
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web search NEUTRAL — Hurricane Lowell, a Category 4 storm, is heading toward Hawaii, expected to bring heavy rain, strong winds, and dangerous surf by Monday. The storm will likely pass west of the islands, but any eastwa…
https://wflanews.iheart.com/content/2026-09-06-hurricane-low…
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web search NEUTRAL — 4 (Xinhua) -- Hurricane Lowell, located several hundred miles south of the Hawaiian Islands, has been rapidly strengthening, prompting Hawaii Governor Josh Green to declare a statewide emergency on Th…
http://chinaview.cn/20260905/99a644a5c6c7453abb432a62be33bbe…
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Claim 5: “In the span of a week in August 2026, powerful storms and deadly flooding knocked out power to a half-million people across the …”
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The claim is directly corroborated by multiple cross-references from Flipboard reporting that powerful storms and flooding in August 2026 caused power outages for a half-million people.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following notable deaths occurred in 2026. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2026
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Clacton was held on 13 August 2026, following the resignation of Nigel Farage, its member of Parliament. Farage, who is the leader of…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 2026 (MMXXVI) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2026th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 26th year of the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026
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Claim 6: “Historic Waiohinu mom-and-pop store vows to reopen after Hurricane Lala devastation”
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Multiple sources, including a cross-reference and web search results, confirm that the Wong-Yuen store in Waiohinu was devastated by Hurricane Lala and that owner Randy Kai intends to reopen.
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web search NEUTRAL — Hurricane Lala made a close pass to the South Point of the Big Island Saturday. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2026).But it isn’t clear how many families actually store that much at any given time. The short…
https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/08/how-hurricane-lala-shut-do…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Wong-Yuen store, which first opened its doors in 1935, sustained severe structural and inventory damage when floodwaters tore through the building. After marrying into the family, Uncle Randolph K…
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/09/05/historic-waiohinu-m…
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web search NEUTRAL — 17, 2026, after Hurricane Lala. (Tiffany DeMasters/Big Island Now). Randy Kai, the 82-year-old owner of the Wong Yuen Store just off Highway 11 in Wai‘ohinu, said his wife’s parents and grandparents a…
https://mauinow.com/2026/08/18/lala-struck-in-darkness-with-…
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