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Tropical Storm 22W (Prapiroon), # 11 FINAL

By Dave Ornauer
Published: October 18, 2012

1:45 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, Japan time: This should be the last you’ll hear about the Thai God of Rain in this space.

Okinawa took a licking but kept on ticking last night; top winds were 46-mph sustained and 76-mph gusts just before midnight. Some sporadic power outages were reported.

Prapiroon has picked up forward speed (northeast at 14 mph) and is hurtling rapidly on a path that will take it about 300 miles southeast of the Kanto Plain at mid-morning Friday.

Yokosuka Naval Base should get 30-mph sustained winds and 40-mph gusts around mid-morning, and they’ll diminish sharply by afternoon, followed by clear skies. Unless by some miracle Prapiroon balloons back up into something major, PST is signing off for now.

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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.