Tropical Storm 05W (Dianmu), # 7
Published: August 9, 2010
11:30 a.m. Tuesday -- Tropical Storm Dianmu keeps heading north toward the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula, and is forecast to knife its way between Kunsan Air Base and Chinhae Naval Base around mid-day Wednesday.
No weather advisories or accelerated Tropical Cyclone Conditions of Readiness were posted on the U.S. Forces Korea Web site as of 11 a.m. Tuesday. Still waiting word from authorities whether they're planning to move assets out of either location in advance of the storm.
USFK's Web site's weather page calls for Kunsan to feel the effects of Dianmu from today into Thursday morning. Areas III and IV should experience "extensive" showers and possible T-storms on Wednesday. Everywhere else should be cloudy with rain and possible T-storms.
At 9 a.m. Tuesday, Dianmu was about 450 miles south-southwest of Seoul, rumbling north at 15 mph packing 58-mph sustained winds and 75-mph gusts, below typhoon strength, but still a pretty significant tropical storm.
Landfall is forecast for around 6 a.m. Wednesday over Mokpo on Korea's southwestern coast. Dianmu should pass about some 60 miles southeast of Kunsan and 60 miles west-northwest of Chinhae, still packing a pretty powerful punch, 58-mph sustained and 75-mph gusts at its center.
Dianmu should move over the Korean peninsula in relatively short order, then back out over the East Sea/Sea of Japan by early evening Wednesday.
Misawa Air Base in northeastern Japan is next on the itinerary, but by then Dianmu is forecast to have significantly weakened, 35-mph sustained winds and 46-mph gusts as it passes Misawa 15 miles to its south around midnight Thursday.
Next update around midnight.
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