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Typhoon 04W (Mawar) # 4: Okinawa remains in TCCOR 3.

By Dave Ornauer
Published: June 3, 2012

7 p.m. Sunday, June 3, Japan time: Typhoon Mawar has edged a bit further east than previous forecasts projected. While that means the winds won’t be quite as fierce for Okinawa, it’ll still be a very windy, gusty Monday evening and early Tuesday morning.

Joint Typhoon Warning Center now forecasts Mawar to rumble 140 miles south-southeast of Okinawa at 6 a.m. Tuesday. Kadena Air Base 18th Wing Weather Flight officials project sustained 46-mph winds and 58-mph gusts between 11 p.m. Monday and 2 a.m. Tuesday at Mawar churns past.

Winds of 34 mph and greater are forecast to begin at 9 a.m. Monday and continue until 6 p.m. Tuesday.

No official word yet of upgrading out of Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 3. A weather flight official said they may wait until morning to make that call.

Stay tuned.

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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.