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Tropical Storm 18W (Jelawat), # 1

By Dave Ornauer
Published: September 20, 2012

9 a.m. Friday, Sept. 21, Japan time: PST is keeping an eyeball on a new disturbance that mushroomed overnight into Tropical Storm Jelawat. It's currently moving toward the Philippines, but is forecast to stall, then head northwest over the next few days. Where it heads beyond the 25th is uncertain; some forecast models have it cnntinuing northwest, others have it curving more northeast, possibly toward Okinawa by the 26th or 27th, one forecaster says. PST has it in its sights.

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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.