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Tropical Storm 08W, # 1

By Dave Ornauer
Published: August 28, 2010

Well, we've got one coming, gang. Okinawa entered Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness-3 at 10 a.m. Sunday, as Tropical Storm 08W formed overnight Saturday and began rumbling toward island paradise. Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued its first warning on the storm at 6 a.m. Japan time Sunday.

Kadena Air Base's 18th Wing Weather Flight forecasts call for the worst to hit on Tuesday, with destructive 58-mph winds or greater starting around 3 a.m. with sustained 58-mph winds and 80-mph gusts occuring between 6 and 9 a.m. 08W is forecast to track 26 1/2 miles southwest of Kadena at 5 a.m. Tuesday, which means the island will likely get the east and southeast quadrants of the storm -- generally the worst ones because they contain the more nasty stuff.

Okinawa has not entered TCCOR 1-E since July 13, 2007, when Typhoon Man-yi belted the island with 100 mph-plus winds and heavy rain.

Keep it here at PST for the latest. Next update at noon, another at 6 p.m., yet another at midnight.

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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.