The 1963 season

Tropical Storm Rose (1963)

Tropical Storm Rose peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between June 6, 1963 and June 18, 1963, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Rose, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1963 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
June 6, 1963 to June 18, 1963
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.8
Identifier
WP031963

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 6, 12:0019.5N 115.6E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 6, 18:0019.2N 116.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 7, 00:0018.8N 117.2E1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 7, 06:0018.4N 118.1E1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 7, 12:0018.3N 118.9E1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 7, 18:0018.3N 119.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 00:0018.5N 119.8E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 06:0018.7N 120.1E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 12:0018.8N 120.5E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 18:0019.0N 120.8E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 00:0019.3N 121.0E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 06:0019.6N 121.3E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 12:0019.9N 121.7E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 18:0020.4N 122.1E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 00:0020.9N 122.6E50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 06:0021.4N 123.4E50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 12:0021.8N 124.1E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 18:0022.4N 124.7E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 00:0022.9N 125.3E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 06:0023.4N 126.1E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 12:0023.5N 126.7E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 18:0023.7N 127.3E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 00:0023.9N 127.6E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 06:0024.4N 127.9E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 12:0025.0N 128.7E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 18:0026.3N 129.5E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 00:0028.0N 129.8E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 06:0029.9N 130.9E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 12:0032.3N 132.5E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 18:0035.5N 134.5E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 00:0037.9N 136.8E994 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 06:0040.6N 141.0E996 mbExtratropical
Jun 14, 12:0041.5N 144.4E998 mbExtratropical
Jun 14, 18:0042.7N 148.6E1000 mbExtratropical
Jun 15, 00:0044.8N 152.7E1000 mbExtratropical
Jun 15, 06:0047.5N 156.0E996 mbExtratropical
Jun 15, 12:0049.2N 159.5E994 mbExtratropical
Jun 15, 18:0050.0N 162.5E990 mbExtratropical
Jun 16, 00:0050.5N 165.0E990 mbExtratropical
Jun 16, 06:0050.7N 167.4E984 mbExtratropical
Jun 16, 12:0050.8N 169.6E984 mbExtratropical
Jun 16, 18:0051.0N 171.8E982 mbExtratropical
Jun 17, 00:0051.0N 174.0E980 mbExtratropical
Jun 17, 06:0051.0N 178.0E980 mbExtratropical
Jun 17, 12:0051.4N 179.0E982 mbExtratropical
Jun 17, 18:0052.0N 180.0E986 mbExtratropical
Jun 18, 00:0053.0N 182.0EExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 1963

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.