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Super Typhoon 18W (Jelawat), # 10

By Dave Ornauer
Published: September 26, 2012

3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, Japan time: Jelawat continues on a path that is forecast to take it 35 miles east-southeast of Okinawa at midnight Saturday, though it is projected to diminish into a severe Category 1-equivalent typhoon as it roars over us, with maximum 80-mph winds and 104-mph gusts forecast for just before midnight. Rain associated with Jelawat should start falling around noon Friday; 6 to 8 inches are forecast.

Latest forecast wind timeline from Kadena Air Base’s 18th Wing Weather Flight:

-- Sustained 35-mph winds, 6 a.m. Saturday.
-- Sustained 40-mph winds, noon Saturday.
-- Sustained 58-mph winds, 5 p.m. Saturday.
-- Maximum 80-mph winds, 104-mph gusts, 11 p.m. Saturday.
-- Winds diminishing below 58 mph, 3 a.m. Sunday.
-- Winds diminishing below 40 mph, 6 a.m. Sunday.
-- Winds diminishing below 35 mph, 10 a.m. Sunday.

Time to begin that general cleanup around house and office, bringing in or tying down loose objects. And make sure your neighbors do the same.
 

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About the Author


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.