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Tropical Storm 16W (Bolaven), # 2

By Dave Ornauer
Published: August 20, 2012

7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21, Japan time: Still a question of how close Tropical Storm Bolaven comes to Okinawa come the weekend. Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecast track calls for Bolaven to chug about 207 miles south of the island around 3 a.m. Sunday. Kadena Air Base’s 18th Wing Weather Flight extended forecast calls for 30-mph winds and 52-mph gusts along with isolated thunderstorms Saturday afternoon and evening. PST’s got an eye on it.

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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.