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Tropical Storm 12W (Haikui), # 8; Okinawa remains in TCCOR 1

By Dave Ornauer
Published: August 4, 2012

6:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5, Japan time: All wind parameters remain the same except for the timeline, which has been pushed back some. Tropical Storm Haikui has strengthened a bit, and the fiercest winds Okinawa should experience, 40-mph sustained winds and 58-mph gusts, are occurring as I type this, and should last until around 8 p.m. Quite a few rain squalls associated with Haikui as well. Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 1 remains in effect.

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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.