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Typhoon 17W (Sanba), # 23: Storm Watch on Okinawa, Sasebo in TCCOR 1, Daegu in TCCOR 2

By Dave Ornauer
Published: September 15, 2012

4:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, Japan time: Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness Storm Watch has been set for Okinawa. Storm's moving away, but still feeling effects. They're keeping an eyeball on Typhoon Sanba, in the unlikely event it decides to Samba back our way. Normal operations to resume shortly.

Sasebo Naval Base set TCCOR 1 at 10 a.m. Local forecast call for 35- to 45-mph sustained winds and 55-mph gusts Monday morning.

Area IV installations in Daegu are now in TCCOR 2. TCCOR 1 to be set this evening.

Daegu High, Daegu American, C. Turner Joy, Darby Elementary and E.J. King Schools are closed Monday due to Typhoon Sanba, DODDS Pacific officials announced Sunday. More closures, if needed, will be announced later.

Area IV/Daegu still expecting 69-mph sustained winds and 92-mph gusts on Monday. Keep tuned to USAG Daegu's Facebook page for facilities closure announcements.

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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.