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Typhoon 04W (Mawar) # 5: Yokosuka sets TCCOR 4

By Dave Ornauer
Published: June 3, 2012

9 a.m. Monday, June 4, Japan time: In case you’ve been wondering, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center has been having trouble with its Web page and is unable to update its products as a result.

Yokosuka Naval Base entered Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 4 at 7:45 a.m. Monday.

Latest from Kadena Air Base’s 18th Wing Weather Flight is: Typhoon Mawar is forecast to pass 125 miles southeast of Okinawa this evening or early tomorrow morning. Forecasts call for maximum sustained 46-mph winds with maximum 63-mph gusts between 11 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Okinawa remains in TCCOR 3 at this writing. Will update if anything changes.

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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.