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Typhoon 22W (Prapiroon), # 3: Tokyo bound and flying?

By Dave Ornauer
Published: October 12, 2012

8 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, Japan time: Looks as if Okinawa is out of the woods regarding Typhoon Prapiroon, which appears to have peaked in intensity at 98-mph sustained winds and 121-mph gusts at its center, with closest point of approach 340 miles east of Okinawa at 3 a.m. Tuesday.

Tokyo looks as if Prapiroon might throw a calling card its way early Thursday morning, well off the coast of Honshu (178 miles southeast of Yokosuka at 3 a.m.), but still maintaining typhoon strength, making for a gusty, rainy early morning. We’ll keep a sharp 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.