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Typhoon 22W (Prapiroon), # 6: Wind timeline issued for Okinawa

By Dave Ornauer
Published: October 14, 2012

10:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, Japan time: Here is the forecast wind timeline for Okinawa for Typhoon Prapiroon. Damaging sustained winds of 58 mph or greater are not forecast to occur:

-- Sustained 35-mph winds and greater, 3 a.m. Wednesday.
-- Sustained 40-mph winds and greater, 5 a.m. Wednesday.
-- Maximum sustained 46-mph winds, 63-mph gusts, 4 p.m. Wednesday.
-- Winds diminishing below 40 mph, 6 a.m. Thursday.
-- Winds diminishing below 35 mph, 8 a.m. Thursday.

 

 

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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.