Naha | Ishigakikjima | ||||
Date | Hour | Barom. | Wind | Barom. | Wind |
11 | 6 | 743.mm 5 | SSE 4…… | 745.mm 5 | W 9 |
12 | 745. 5 | SE 6…… | 744. 0 | W 9 | |
12 | 6 | 744. 5 | SE 6…… | 739. 0 | W 9 |
12 | 744. 0 | ESE 6…… | 740. 5 | WNW 9 | |
13 | 6 | 738. 5 | SSE 6…… | 743. 5 | W 7 |
12 | 739. 5 | SSE 6…… | 744. 0 | WNW 7 | |
14 | 6 | 731. 5 | S 8…… | 746. 0 | WNW 6 |
12 | 730. 0 | SW 7…… | 747. 5 | WNW 7 |
The movement was well felt as far as Oshima, where the pressure began again to fall, and the wind to blow with force, backing gradually from ESE to NE. Thus the centre came to pass a second time between that station and Naha, just in a direction opposite that of the first time, on the morning of the 15th, five days after the first passage, and very close to Naha: strong NE to NNE winds prevailed at Naze, while whole gales from W, force 10, swept across the island of Naha.
The documents at our disposal are not sufficient to follow very closely the excursion made by the cyclone to the SE of the Loochoos. Thanks to the bulletin of the Kobe Marine Observatory, we have got a part of the report of the Nanking Maru (O. S. K.) which was in close contact with the track in that region. Thus we are enabled to state that, on the 17th, about noon, the vortex was near lat, 25° and long. 130°; after crossing the north of the island of Naha, it had veered to the SE to reach that position on the 16th: there an apex was traced, with convexity towards the south; it then commenced to move back to the NE and later on to the N and the NNW, thus returning again towards Oshima, where after a short rise the barometer began anew to fall, and the wind to freshen, first from NNE then from N and NNW, showing that the station was again threatened. The minimum was at the shortest distance, on the 18th, about 1h p. m. when the pressure fell as low as 727mm, with a NNW gale, backing soon to the SW.
Kiusiu was now the next place to be visited by the typhoon which after passing Oshima followed again the accustomed path, and continued to trace the parabolic curve it had abandoned not far from there, since the 8th, that is for 10 days. From the regular observations cabled from Kagoshima and Nagasaki, combined with the reports of steamers, published by the Observatory of the Imperial Navy at Kobe, (Peking Maru, Sekke Maru, Kohso Maru, Madras Maru) it is easy to follow the centre of the typhoon that was travelling in a NNW direction, since the 17th: it passed by the W of Van Diemen Strait and Kagoshima, early on the morning of the 19th, entered afterwards the Korea Strait, and advanced on the E side of Itsuhara Is. on the 20th, between 4h and 5h p. m. (minimum 733mm):