Typhoon 18W (Jelawat), # 25: Kanto bases now in TCCOR 2
Published: September 29, 2012
12:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, Japan time: Now that Okinawa’s finished getting ravaged by its worst tropical cyclone since Man-yi on July 13, 2007, the Kanto Plain is bracing to be Typhoon Jelawat’s next visitor. All U.S. bases in the Kanto Plain are in Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 2; that will change later this morning.
It won’t be a typhoon by the time it reaches U.S. bases in the Kanto, but Jelawat will still be a significant tropical storm as it roars through the area.
Looks as if landfall will occur over Shizuoka around 7 p.m. Sunday, then it is forecast to pass almost directly over Yokota, still packing 58-mph sustained winds and 75-mph gusts. Yokosuka forecasts call for 35- to 45-mph sustained winds and 55-mph gusts overnight Sunday. It could be worse at Yokota, Camps Fuji and Zama and Naval Air Facility Atsugi, which will be closer to Jelawat.
It's expected that Jelawat will then exit quickly back into the Pacific Ocean near Sendai and die out slowly near the Kurile Islands of northeastern Japan.
