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Typhoon 17W (Sanba), # 20: Okinawa in TCCOR 1C; Sasebo in TCCOR 2

By Dave Ornauer
Published: September 15, 2012

11:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, Japan time: Sasebo Naval Base entered Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 2 at 11:30 p.m. Destructive winds of 58 mph or greater are anticipated within 24 hours.



10:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, Japan time: Okinawa entered Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 1-C (caution) at 10:21 p.m. Winds of 44 mph and 58-mph gusts are occurring. Stay tuned for upgrade to 1E.

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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.