TOKYO: Rail services resumed and evacuation adviseries were lifted in Tokyo after Typhoon Phanfone passed over the Japanese capital on its way back out to sea. The storm caused at least one death at a US air base in Okinawa.

Heavy rain warnings remained in effect for coastal areas from the central prefecture of Aichi to Iwate in northern Japan. Phanfone was centered about 100 km east of Hitachi, a coastal city north of Tokyo, as of 1:45 p.m. according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The storm had sustained winds of 126 km per hour, equal to a Category 1 hurricane, the weakest on the five-step Saffir- Simpson scale.

Phanfone Sunday washed three airmen out to sea at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture, according to a statement on the base’s website. One of the airmen was found by Japan’s coast guard and pronounced dead, while the two others remain missing.

At its peak intensity in Tokyo Monday between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m., the storm dumped 27 centimeters of rain on the capital.

Clear skies and temperatures of 26 degrees Celsius (79 Fahrenheit) came to Tokyo after the storm’s passage. City officials lifted an advisory at about 1:30 p.m. urging residents of 22,900 households in central Minato ward to flee their homes for public shelters due to heightened landslide risk.