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Typhoon 22W (Prapiroon), # 8: TCCOR 3 set for Okinawa

By Dave Ornauer
Published: October 15, 2012

8 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, Japan time: As a precaution, Okinawa entered Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 3 early this morning, though peak winds are still forecast to be no stronger than 46 mph sustained and 63-mph gusts at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Okinawa should experience sustained 40-mph winds from 11 a.m. Tuesday to 3 a.m. Wednesday, if Prapiroon stays on its current forecast track. The operative word being “if.”

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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.