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Jongdari downgraded to a tropical depression, remains forecast to skirt the South Korean west coast overnight Tuesday into Wednesday.

Jongdari downgraded to a tropical depression, remains forecast to skirt the South Korean west coast overnight Tuesday into Wednesday. (Joint Typhoon Warning Center)

7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 20, Japan time: Jongdari has been downgraded to a tropical depression, and according to Joint Typhoon Warning Center’s latest forecast remains on track to skirt the coast of South Korea overnight Tuesday into Wednesday.

At 3 p.m., Jongdari was 214 miles south of Kunsan Air Base, headed north at 23 mph with 35-mph sustained winds and 46-mph gusts at center. Destructive winds are not forecast for Korea, according to JTWC’s forecast track.

Jongdari is projected to move rather quickly along Korea’s coast, passing 52 miles west of Kunsan, 56 miles west of Camp Humphreys and 43 miles west of Yongsan Garrison between 3 and 10 a.m. Wednesday as a tropical depression, 30-mph sustained winds and 40-mph gusts.

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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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