U.S. bases on Okinawa remained in Storm Watch through Friday afternoon. Typhoon Haikui still on course to pass 282 miles southwest of Okinawa early Saturday morning as a Category 2-equivalent typhoon. ()
5:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 1, Japan time: Typhoon Haikui continues heading west as a Category 1-equivalent storm, and Okinawa continues to be relatively well out of harm’s way, according to Joint Typhoon Warning Center’s latest forecast track.
At 3 p.m., Haikui was 307 miles south of Kadena Air Base, heading west at 12 mph packing 86-mph sustained winds and 104-mph gusts at center. U.S. bases on Okinawa remained in Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness Storm Watch through Friday afternoon.
JTWC projects Haikui to keep rumbling west-northwest, passing 282 miles south-southwest of Kadena at 2 a.m. Saturday as a Category 2-equivalent typhoon.
The wind-forecast timeline from Kadena’s 18th Wing Weather flight indicates peak winds of 23-mph sustained and 40-mph gusts for Kadena and 29-mph sustained and 46-mph gusts for south Okinawa at 10 p.m. Friday. From there, Haikui remains forecast to make a straight run west-northwest through Taiwan into southeast China over the weekend.
