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Tropical cyclone formation alert; storm forming northeast of Manila

By Dave Ornauer
Published: July 20, 2012

8 p.m. Friday, July 20, Japan time: A possible tropical cyclone northeast of Manila is now the subject of a Joint Typhoon Warning Center formation alert, which was issued at 5 p.m. The disturbance appears headed west for the moment, into what JTWC calls a favorable area for development, so, very likely, PST is eyeballing the ninth storm of the northwest Pacific's tropical cyclone season.

While it appears to be moving away from Okinawa, the island is not out of the woods weatherwise. A system unrelated to the one near the Philippines will make Tuesday a wild and windy one for Okinawa. Kadena Air Base weather's long-range forecast calls for isolated showers and possible thunderstorms with southeasterly winds of between 23 and 35 mph and gusts between 40 and 52 mph..

Keep it here. PST will keep a lookout.

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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.