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Typhoon 17W (Sanba), # 24: Okinawa now in seasonal TCCOR 4

By Dave Ornauer
Published: September 16, 2012

7:10 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, Japan time: It's all over for Okinawa. U.S. bases on island resumed seasonal Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 4 at 7:04 p.m.

Osan Air Base's 51st Fighter Wing command has directed that only mission-essential personnel report to work Monday. DODDS schools will be closed and the POW-MIA ceremony has been canceled. Personnel are required to stay in their homes Monday unless otherwise directed.

Schools and other services at Camp Humphreys will be open on Monday. Parents should be prepared for early release of their students should the weather take a turn for the worse.

Area IV bases in Daegu, Chinhae and Pusan remain in TCCOR 2; all other areas in Korea are in TCCOR 3.

 

 

 

 

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Dave Ornauer has been with Stars and Stripes since March 5, 1981. One of his first assignments as a beat reporter in the old Japan News Bureau was “typhoon chaser,” a task which he resumed virtually full time since 2004, the year after his job, as a sports writer-photographer, moved to Okinawa and Ornauer with it.

As a typhoon reporter, Ornauer pores over Web sites managed by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center as well as U.S. government, military and local weather outlets for timely, topical information. Pacific Storm Tracker is designed to take the technical lingo published on those sites and simplify it for the average Stripes reader.