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Tropical Storm 22W (Prapiroon), # 9: Downgraded but still a nuisance

By Dave Ornauer
Published: October 16, 2012

10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, Japan time: The Thai God of Rain, Prapiroon, was downgraded to a mere tropical storm Tuesday, never coming close to its peak forecast 115-mph gusts that the Joint Typhoon Warning Center predicted in the storm’s infancy.

Kadena Air Base’s 18th Wing Weather Flight forecast calls for 30-mph sustained winds and 40-mph gusts with rainshowers Wednesday morning, increasing to 40-mph sustained and 52-mph gusts in the afternoon and night into Thursday morning, before dropping off into the weekend.

What’s left of Prapiroon should pass well off shore, some 330 miles southeast of Yokosuka Naval Base around 8 a.m. Saturday. Yokosuka’s local forecast calls for winds to start increasing Thursday, up to 30-mph gusts by evening increasing afterward.
 

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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.