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Tropical cyclone formation alert; new system brewing east of Iwo

By Dave Ornauer
Published: August 2, 2012

8:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2, Japan time: Just as we're getting Typhoon Damrey and Tropical Storm Saola out of our hair, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center this morning issued a tropical cyclone formation alert on a new system developing east of Iwo Jima.

Initial forecasts call for the system to track toward Okinawa. Kadena Air Base 18th Wing Weather Flight officials said computer-generated dynamic aids are not yet in agreement on which way the thing will track, and will keep a sharp eye on it, as will PST. Stay tuned.

At the time the formation alert was issued, the new system was 265 miles east-southeast of Iwo Jima, moving west-northwest at 8 mph. Should the new disturbance head in Okinawa's direction, 18th Wing Weather Flight officials said it could visit Okinawa's neck on the woods Monday or Tuesday.

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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.