Just after 7:00 p.m. H.S.T. on Sunday (3:00 a.m. E.D.T. Monday), departing Tropical Storm Darby was starting to pass by Kauai, the northernmost of the populated Hawaiian Island chain. At that time, Darby was about 100 miles to the northwest of Honolulu (island of Oahu) (Fig. 1). As part of