Hawaii’s Big Island Under Tropical Storm Warning as Hone Threatens Floods and Fires

HONOLULU—Tropical Storm Hone drew near Hawaii on Saturday with gusts of wind and heavy rain that could cause flooding on the Big Island while raising the risk of wildfires on the islands’ drier sides. Hone, which means “sweet and soft” in Hawaiian, had top winds of 65 mph early Saturday. It will likely strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane as it passes near or south of the Big Island from Saturday afternoon into early Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. “They gotta take this thing serious,” said Calvin Endo, a Waianae Coast neighborhood board member who lives in Makaha, a leeward Oahu neighborhood prone to wildfires....