--- title: Hawaii Faces 'Unprecedented' Brace of Massive Storms description: Hurricane Iselle and Tropical Storm Julio are both headed toward the Aloha State canonical: https://time.com/3082073/hawaii-hurricane-tropical-storm/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-05T11:36:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:30:09.538Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Hawaii Faces 'Unprecedented' Brace of Massive Storms og:description: Hurricane Iselle and Tropical Storm Julio are both headed toward the Aloha State og:url: https://time.com/3082073/hawaii-hurricane-tropical-storm/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38a92387457d6202/69869e651eebf75afe372233/hurricane-iselle.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hurricane Iselle is shown far to the east of Hawaii followed by Tropical Storm Julio on Aug. 5, 2014 in this NOAA satellite image. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hawaii Faces 'Unprecedented' Brace of Massive Storms twitter:description: Hurricane Iselle and Tropical Storm Julio are both headed toward the Aloha State twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38a92387457d6202/69869e651eebf75afe372233/hurricane-iselle.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hawaii Faces Pummeling By 2 Major Storms by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Aug 5, 2014 11:36 AM CUT  Hurricane Iselle is shown far to the east of Hawaii followed by Tropical Storm Julio on Aug. 5, 2014 in this NOAA satellite image. Hurricane Iselle is shown far to the east of Hawaii followed by Tropical Storm Julio on Aug. 5, 2014 in this NOAA satellite image.Weather Underground/AP by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Aug 5, 2014 11:36 AM CUT Hurricane Iselle barreled towards Hawaii early Tuesday, with forecasters warning that the islands could face a one-two punch with Tropical Storm Julio trailing not far behind. It is extremely rare to have such major storms in such quick succession, according to [Weather Channel](http://www.weather.com/ "undefined") lead meteorologist Kevin Roth. He said the most recent example was in 1982 when two significantly weaker tropical storms and depressions hit ten days apart. [Read more from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/hurricane-iselle-heads-hawaii-tailed-tropical-storm-julio-n172696?cid=par-time-article%5F20140805 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3082073/hawaii-hurricane-tropical-storm/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3082073/hawaii-hurricane-tropical-storm/"},"headline":"Hawaii Faces Pummeling By 2 Major Storms","datePublished":"2014-08-05T11:36:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:30:09.538Z","description":"Hurricane Iselle and Tropical Storm Julio are both headed toward the Aloha State","url":"https://time.com/3082073/hawaii-hurricane-tropical-storm/","keywords":["weather"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38a92387457d6202/69869e651eebf75afe372233/hurricane-iselle.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38a92387457d6202/69869e651eebf75afe372233/hurricane-iselle.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hurricane Iselle is shown far to the east of Hawaii followed by Tropical Storm Julio on Aug. 5, 2014 in this NOAA satellite image.","caption":"Hurricane Iselle is shown far to the east of Hawaii followed by Tropical Storm Julio on Aug. 5, 2014 in this NOAA satellite image.","creditText":"Weather Underground/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/weather/","name":"weather"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3082073/hawaii-hurricane-tropical-storm/","name":"Hawaii Faces Pummeling By 2 Major Storms"}}]}] ```