This document is a guide to the threats and hazards of Okinawa.
This document serves as an Emergency Actions Guide for Camps Foster and Lester, outlining potential threats such as destructive weather, man-made disasters, and terrorism. It provides specific definitions and readiness levels for tropical cyclones and typhoons affecting the region.
The guide includes detailed preparation checklists for various threat levels (TCCOR 1 through 5), safety protocols for thunderstorms and lightning, and information on disaster supply kits and emergency numbers for the area.
A typhoon is a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 65-129 knots (75-149 mph).
You should stay indoors for at least 30 minutes after hearing the last clap of thunder.
A thunderstorm is classified as severe if it produces hail at least 3/4" in diameter.