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Super Typhoon 18W (Jelawat), #16

By Joe Gromelski
Published: September 27, 2012

12:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, Japan time: Latest forecast wind timeline from Kadena Air Base’s 18th Wing Weather Flight demonstrates a nasty Saturday and even early Sunday in store for Okinawa. The island remains in Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 3 for now; expect that to change by early morning. Yokosuka Naval Base is in TCCOR 4 and Sasebo Naval Base in TCCOR Storm Watch.
 
 Okinawa’s latest forecast wind timeline:

  • Sustained 35-mph winds or greater, 6 p.m. Friday.
  • Sustained 40-mph winds or greater, 9 p.m. Friday.
  • Sustained 58-mph winds or greater, 7 a.m. Saturday.
  • Maximum 104-mph sustained winds, 138-mph gusts, 1 p.m. Saturday.
  • Winds diminishing below 58 mph, 9 p.m. Saturday.
  • Winds diminishing below 40 mph, 1 a.m. Sunday.
  • Winds diminishing below 35 mph, noon Sunday.
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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.