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Typhoon 16W (Bolaven), # 17: Okinawa enters TCCOR 1-E.

By Dave Ornauer
Published: August 26, 2012

5 a.m. Monday, Aug. 27, Japan time: Typhoon Bolaven’s back-side wind and rain bands are still causing some fairly strong squalls over Okinawa, to the tune of 58-mph sustained winds and 71-mph gusts. Kadena Air Base 18th Wing Weather Flight officials say they expect this to keep up until around 7 a.m., perhaps longer. Patience. It’s almost over. Strongest sustained winds and gusts were 104 mph and 138 mph around 9:40 p.m. Sunday.

9 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, Japan time: It's happening, folks. Sustained winds are now exceeding 58 mph. Kadena Air Base's 18th Wing just declared Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 1-E (emergency) for Okinawa. All outdoor activity is prohibited. Stay indoors until the all-clear is sounded.

 

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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.