(Reuters) - Flash flood warnings were issued on Tuesday for the Hawaiian island of Kauai Island, with residents on the north coast told to evacuate et al left stranded by high water because the remnants of cyclone Lane drenched the earth and a brand new storm brewed within the Pacific Ocean.

Hawaii was spared an immediate hit from a serious cyclone as Lane diminished to a tropical storm because it approached then drifted west, beyond land. however rain was still pounding the island chain, touching off flooding on island and Kauai Island.

"It has been a gentle rain since when Lane however I got up 2:30 a.m. (Hawaiian commonplace Time) to the National Weather Service flash flood consultatory and that is after we place out the discharge still as Associate in Nursing island-wide call," County of Kauai Island voice Alden Alayvilla aforementioned.

The consultatory urged residents close to Hanalei Bridge on the side of the island to evacuate their homes thanks to rising stream levels. A convoy that had been wont to escort residents over roads broken by historic floods in Apr between was pack up, going away several interrupt.

"Heavy pounding and unsafe conditions area unit being reported  island-wide. Motorists area unit suggested to drive with extreme caution. Updates are going to be given as a lot of data is formed offered," the Kauai Island Emergency Management Agency aforementioned.

A flash flood watch conjointly remained in result for island, home to the urban center port and seventy p.c of Hawaii’s one.4 million residents.

Micco Godinez, United Nations agency lives on the side of Kauai Island, aforementioned he found the sole road out of Hanalei, wherever he lives, obstructed by police vehicles once he tried to go away for work on Tuesday morning. He expected to be stranded for a minimum of another day.

"I cannot get out in the slightest degree," Godinez aforementioned. "Our very little community of Hanalei is isolated then west people is even a lot of isolated," he said.

Even as Hawaii residents wanted to live through Lane, they unbroken a watchful eye on Tropical Storm Miriam, spinning within the Pacific Ocean some two,000 miles to the east and expected to become a cyclone by the time it approaches the islands.

"Miriam is meant to travel north and dissipate within the colder waters and drier air, therefore i am not extremely troubled concerning it," Godinez aforementioned. "But it's cyclone season, and there is another one behind that. you recognize what they say: while not rain you would not have rainbows."