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Preliminary data from the National Weather Service shows rainfall from Jan. 27-30 was measured at 23.61 inches at Puʻu Aliʻi, Molokaʻi, and from 5 to 15 inches over parts of Maui.
Wednesday's storms spawned six tornadoes in Mississippi and injured at least three people, authorities say.
There have been three injuries reported to MEMA as of Thursday with two of those being in Noxubee County and one being in Holmes County.
Teams organized by the Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency were scheduled to inspect at least seven sites on Maui on Monday, including damage to the Pi’ilani Highway and the Kula State Forest Reserve.
Again, we've been out here for a couple days. it's just hard to believe. i was with some storm assessment people yesterday. they said the same thing, they cannot believe that no one was injured there. >> they kept saying no one was injured in this medical center. i frankly did not believe it. you talk about injuries. what kind of injuries are they seeing here? >> well are there's sort of three waves of injury. the primary wave is from the force of the storm itself. the second wave is the shrapnel. anything can become shrapnel. they've seen impalements. broken buses, crushed bones. spiral cord ...