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Tropical Depression 08W, # 2

By Dave Ornauer
Published: July 16, 2012

6 p.m. Monday, July 16, Japan time: Tropical Depression 08W, as yet unnamed, continues to track rapidly northwest on a path taking it between Japan’s southwestern islands of Kyushu and Okinawa, then curve quickly north-northeast toward the south coast of Korea.

Having formed too far north and too close to land masses to really mount a serious charge, 08W should rake Okinawa with northerly winds and Kyushu with southeasterly winds up to 25 mph Tuesday afternoon and evening.

Still packing a mildly significant tropical storm’s punch, 08W is forecast to ram ashore packing 40-mph sustained winds and 46-mph gusts just east of Mokpo around 5 p.m. Wednesday, making for a wet, windy evening and early Thursday morning.

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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.