The 1966 season

Super Typhoon Alice (1966)

Super Typhoon Alice reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between August 23, 1966 and September 4, 1966, with a lowest pressure of 938 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Alice, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1966 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
August 23, 1966 to September 4, 1966
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
938 mb (27.70 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
32.0
Identifier
WP151966

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
Aug 23, 18:0013.5N 143.5EDisturbance
Aug 24, 00:0014.6N 144.4E1008 mbMixed
Aug 24, 06:0015.4N 144.6E1004 mbMixed
Aug 24, 12:0016.4N 144.7E1004 mbMixed
Aug 24, 18:0017.4N 144.6E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0018.2N 144.4E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0019.8N 144.5E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0021.6N 144.5E55 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0023.5N 144.4E60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0025.3N 144.4E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0026.8N 144.1E60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0027.5N 143.9E60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0028.2N 144.3E60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0028.4N 145.2E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0028.3N 145.8E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0028.0N 146.1E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0027.8N 146.0E60 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0027.7N 145.9E60 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0027.4N 145.5E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0027.2N 145.1E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0027.0N 144.5E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0026.7N 143.6E70 kt966 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0026.5N 142.7E75 kt966 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0026.2N 141.7E75 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0026.0N 140.8E75 kt972 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0025.7N 139.7E80 kt974 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0025.4N 138.5E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0025.3N 137.5E90 kt962 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0025.2N 136.4E100 kt958 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0025.2N 135.3E100 kt954 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0025.2N 134.2E100 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0025.3N 133.1E110 kt945 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0025.3N 132.0E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0025.4N 130.9E110 kt938 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0025.6N 129.8E120 kt945 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0025.8N 128.7E130 kt955 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0026.0N 127.5E130 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0026.2N 126.3E130 kt973 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0026.3N 125.1E130 kt973 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0026.4N 123.9E130 kt973 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0026.3N 122.5E130 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0026.3N 121.2E130 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0026.3N 119.8E130 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0026.3N 118.5E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0025.4N 117.4E50 kt998 mbMixed
Sep 4, 00:0024.0N 117.0E40 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 4, 06:0023.0N 116.8E25 ktMixed
Sep 4, 12:0025.3N 115.7EDisturbance

Other Western Pacific storms of 1966

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.