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Super Typhoon 17W (Sanba), # 11

By Dave Ornauer
Published: September 13, 2012

11:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, Japan time: Sanba was upgraded to super-typhoon status late Thursday evening by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. It’s winds are now 155-mph sustained with 190-mph gusts at its center, and it’s still forecast to peak at 161-mph sustained and 198-mph gusts as it rumbles north. Worse, Sanba is now moving straight north and its forecast track now brings it 37 miles west of Okinawa at 9 a.m. Sunday. Updated forecast wind timeline when it becomes available.

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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.