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Lane rainfall may have set state record

Forecasters say Hurricane Lane may have set a record in Hawaii with 52.02 inches of rain in Mountain View from 8 a.m. Wednesday to 8 a.m. Sunday.

The measurement, which was revised upward today from the preliminary 51.53 inches reported on Sunday, still needs to be verified. If confirmed, it means Hurricane Lane has broken the state’s record for total storm rainfall from a tropical cyclone. The previous record was 52.00 inches at Kanaloahuluhulu Ranger Station during Hurricane Hiki in 1950.

It also would mean Hurricane Lane set the nation’s second-highest total storm rainfall from a tropical cyclone since 1950, with the record of 60.58 inches being set in Nederland, Texas, during Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

In addition, an unverified private weather station reported 58.80 inches of rainfall during the same time span, the weather service said. It will try to confirm the report.

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