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Tropical Storm 12W (Haikui), # 10: Okinawa back under TCCOR 1-C

By Dave Ornauer
Published: August 5, 2012

Well, sometimes these things do happen. Tropical Storm Haikui stalled just northwest of Okinawa, which continues to be buffeted by sustained 52-mph winds and gusts up to 75 mph.

Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 1-C (caution) was issued for the island at 5:47 a.m. Those winds are forecast to continue into the afternoon, along with 5 to 7 inches of rain.

Stay tuned here and to your local commanders’ access channel and Facebook pages and to AFN Okinawa.

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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.