Thursday, October 8, 2015

Powerful Storm Slams in to Hokkaido, Typhoon Strength Winds

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 Tropical StormJapanPrefecture of Hokkaido, [Prefecture-wide]Damage levelDetails
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RSOE EDIS Event Report

Description
A powerful typhoon bearing down on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido has forced authorities to order the evacuation of thousands of residents. Thousands of residents in northern Japan have been ordered to evacuate as a powerful typhoon bears down on the island of Hokkaido. Local authorities issued evacuation orders for Nemuro city on the coast and neighbouring areas, as Typhoon Choi-Wan approached from the east, the Hokkaido daily reports. About 170 flights have been cancelled and scores of train services suspended, the paper says. The season's 23rd typhoon, still several hundred kilometres east of Japan, had maximum sustained winds of 108kph and gusts of 162kph, the Japan Meteorological Agency says.
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RSOE EDIS Event Report

Base data
EDIS Number:TC-20151008-50411-JPN
Event type:Tropical Storm
Date/Time:Thursday, 08 October, 2015 at 04:58 (04:58 AM) UTC
Last update:---
Cause of event: 
Damage level:Unknown Damage level
Geographic information
Continent:Asia
Country:Japan
County / State:Prefecture of Hokkaido
Area:Prefecture-wide
City: 
Coordinate:N 43° 16.857, E 142° 43.865
Number of affected people / Humanities loss
Foreign people:Affected is unknown.

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If you are located anywhere in central or northern Japan I am sure you have at least noticed its it’s a little (or a lot) windy outside today.  Choi-wan a large extra-tropical low and once typhoon east of
IR / VIS SAT
Japan has grew in size in to Thursday morning covering a vast area of the North West Pacific with gale force winds.


Winds up to typhoon strength have already been reported in parts of Hokkaido from this storm. Click here for latest reports. The worst of it will be in the North East Area of the island where the low expected to pass Thursday evening with a pressure below 950hpa and winds up to 162kph.
Prepare to be educated… The Jet Stream is indicated by the arrows but even without it the best satellite to use to spot it is the Water Vapor Imagery, you can see it in the areas of drier air in the upper levels. The Jet is ripping Choi-wan apart today from a tropical to a massive extra-tropical system. Winds already reported up to Typhoon Strength in parts of Hokkaido.
Jet Stream
Jet Stream

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