Chan-hom makes landfall, passes just north Tokyo area late Tuesday; among a handful of tropical cyclones populating the northwestern Pacific.

Chan-hom makes landfall, passes just north Tokyo area late Tuesday; among a handful of tropical cyclones populating the northwestern Pacific. (Joint Typhoon Warning Center)

By DAVE ORNAUER 
STARS AND STRIPES

Published August 9, 2026

11 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, Japan time: Chan-hom made landfall and passed just north of Tokyo late Tuesday evening as a middling tropical storm, according to Joint Typhoon Warning Center’s latest forecast track.

At 9 p.m., Chan-hom was about 30 miles northwest of Narita International Airport, heading west-southwest at 20 mph and had weakened to 40-mph sustained winds and 50-mph gusts.

All U.S. bases in Japan remained in seasonal Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness posture through Tuesday evening.

JTWC projects Chan-hom to keep heading across central Honshu overnight into Wednesday morning, then crossing into the Sea of Japan (East Sea) as a tropical depression and dissipating.

Other tropical cyclones active in the Pacific, Tropical Depression 15W and Tropical Storm Peilou, hanging out southeast of Japan, don’t appear to pose any threat to land. Another tropical disturbance, 91W Invest, could develop into something, but it’s wait and see at the moment.

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Dave Ornauer has been employed by or assigned to Stars and Stripes Pacific almost continuously since March 5, 1981. He covers interservice and high school sports at DODEA-Pacific schools and manages the Pacific Storm Tracker.

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