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Typhoon 04W (Mawar), # 8 FINAL: All clear at Yokosuka.

By Dave Ornauer
Published: June 5, 2012

3 p.m. Tuesday, June 5, Japan time: All clear at Yokosuka, folks. Fleet Activities Yokosuka reverted to Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness All-Clear at 8:01 a.m. according to a base spokesman.

Wednesday’s forecast calls for north-northeasterly winds of 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph in the early afternoon as Typhoon Mawar rumbles a good 260 miles east of Yokosuka around 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Okinawa took one wind gust of 47 mph, that at Kadena Air Base at 2:34 a.m. Tuesday. And the 6 to 8 inches of forecast rain? Only a half-inch fell.

More good news: It appears the Joint Typhoon Warning Center’s public Web site is back up and running.

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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.