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Tropical Depression 08W, # 1

By Dave Ornauer
Published: July 15, 2012

1:30 a.m. Monday, July 16, Japan time: Doesn’t appear as if this one will become monstrous, but the eighth numbered tropical cyclone of the northwest Pacific’s season is close enough to be of concern to Okinawa, Japan’s main southwestern island of Kyushu and Korea’s west coast.

08W is forecast to pass 150 miles northeast of Okinawa around 3 p.m. Tuesday, packing moderate tropical storm-force winds of 46-mph sustained and 58-mph gusts at its center. At this point, Kadena Air Base 18th Wing Weather Flight officials anticipate 17-mph winds and 29-mph gusts occurring Tuesday afternoon, although those projections could change.

PST will keep an eyeball or two on it.

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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.