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Tropical Storm 08W (Khanun) #3

By Dave Ornauer
Published: July 17, 2012

6 p.m. Tuesday, July 17, Japan time: Tropical Storm Khanun has decided to edge closer to Okinawa, 91 miles north-northeast early this evening.

But while sustained 58-mph winds or greater are not forecast, and thus no accelerated tropical cyclone conditions of readiness, officials at Kadena Air Base’s 18th Wing Weather Flight are posting a high-wind alert for 40-mph gusts for early Tuesday evening.

Khanun is forecast to skedaddle out of the area rapidly toward the north-northwest and skim the West Sea coast of Korea, packing sustained 46-mph winds and 58-mph gusts at its center early Thursday morning. Should be a wet, gusty one for Osan and Kunsan Air Bases.

In case anybody wondered, Khanun is Thai for Jackfruit.

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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.