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>Chaba hammered parts of Japan's Okinawa prefecture on Monday with wind gusts well over 100 mph, but spared Kadena Air Base the worst of its fury.
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>Wind gusts up to 134 mph (59.7 meters per second) were clocked on the Japanese island of Kume as the eastern eyewall passed through late Monday night, local time.
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>Chaba intensified to a super typhoon Monday. The U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) estimated maximum sustained winds had reached 145 knots, roughly 165 mph, the equivalent of a Category 5 tropical cyclone at that time.
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>The Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) estimated central pressure had cratered at roughly 905 millibars, a "violent" typhoon by their classification.
