After dumping deadly rains in the northern Philippines, Typhoon Goni strengthened on Sunday, bringing a record-shattering wind gust to the Japanese island of Ishigakijima.

As of Monday morning, eastern time, the Category 3 storm was racing toward an encounter with the Japanese Island of Kyushu, where warnings for high winds, heavy rains and high, damaging waves have been issued.

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As of 10 a.m. ET, the storm was maintaining maximum sustained winds of about 125 miles per hour, or 57.5 meters per second. It is expected to make landfall or pass just to the west of Nagasaki and near the cities of Sasebo and Fukuoka, which have a combined population of more than 3 million.

These areas can expect sustained winds to near 100 miles per hour or greater by Monday night eastern time, which is Tuesday, local time in Japan. The storm will be weakening as it approaches Kyushu Island, but still may be the equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane, capable of producing widespread damage.

From Kyushu, Typhoon Goni is predicted to curve northwest as it gets caught up in the swift-moving upper air winds known as the jet stream, into the Sea of Japan, lashing eastern Korea with high winds and rain before making a final landfall as a tropical storm somewhere in North Korea or China.

The storm has already killed at least a dozen people in the Philippines, where nearly 30 inches of rain fell, and set a windspeed record in Japan's Ryukyu Islands.

159-mile-per-hour wind gust

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the wind on Ishigakijima Island reached a maximum gust of 158.8 mph, or 71 meters per second, on Sunday, breaking the site's all-time record of 157 miles per hour, which was set in 1977.

The airport on Ishigakijima measured a wind gust of 150.7 mph, or 67.4 meters per second, at 10:18 p.m. local time, which was 9:18 a.m. ET on Sunday morning, according to weather.com.

JMA Ishigakijima station marked record breaking wind 71.0m/s or 138kt. pic.twitter.com/PgT0LHsHxH — Weather Mizumoto (@hepomodeler) August 23, 2015

Wind blasting out of the west in Ishigaki in southern Typhoon Goni eyewall. Wind gust last hour to 159mph (71mps). pic.twitter.com/4uxqWFR5YC — Anthony Sagliani (@anthonywx) August 23, 2015

Typhoon Goni has been battering Japan's Ryukyu Islands with sustained winds of up to 115 knots, which equates to about 132 miles per hour, or 59.16 meters per second, after the storm intensified throughout Sunday. In fact, the storm may intensify further through Monday, local time, before it begins to weaken as it heads toward the more heavily populated islands of Kyushi.

As of 4 p.m. ET, the storm was the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.

The Ryukyu's have been the equivalent of a typhoon magnet this year, having been hit with at least three significant storms so far this season.

The storm will also impact Okinawa, including Kadena Air Base, a U.S. military facility. It is not expected to make a direct hit there, though.

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center, or JTWC, which is a joint center run by the U.S. Navy and Air Force, is predicting that Typhoon Goni will pass about 100 nautical miles west of Kadena Air Base on August 24, followed by a potentially direct hit on Sasebo, Japan on the 25th.

That city has a population of about 280,000, and the storm is still expected to be a typhoon at that point, potentially even the equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds between 96 to 110 miles per hour.

Typhoon Goni Batters Philippines, At Least 10 Dead http://t.co/unML9Jmjy2 pic.twitter.com/berj50X7YH — Richard Doyle (@TheRichardDoyle) August 23, 2015

The storm is then forecast to veer close to the Korean Peninsula, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to southeastern South Korea, and then similar impacts to North Korea by August 26.

Taiwan, which saw more than 50 inches of rain from Typhoon Soudelor during the first week of August, missed major impacts from Typhoon Goni. Earlier forecasts showed the storm slowing down and meandering on top of the island for more than a day, raising the prospect of devastating floods.

Fortunately for Taiwan, that did not come to fruition, as the storm swung south, into the northern Philippines, before regaining strength a safe distance to the east.