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Tropical Depression 04W, # 1

By Dave Ornauer
Published: May 31, 2012

Friday, June 1, 11 a.m. Japan time: Okinawa has set seasonal Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 4 just in time to greet the season’s fourth numbered storm, which is forecast to skirt southeast of the island overnight Monday into Tuesday.

Kadena Air Base’s 18th Wing Weather Flight says to expect northeasterly winds of 40 mph gusting as high as 45 as as-yet-unnamed 04W makes it way past about 230 miles southeast of Okinawa around midnight Monday. Not a lot of rain forecast to be associated with the storm, a few showers here and there but “the winds will be strong,” a weather flight official said.

Stay tuned.

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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.