The 1966 season

Tropical Storm Doris (1966)

Tropical Storm Doris peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between September 4, 1966 and September 12, 1966, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Doris, 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
September 4, 1966 to September 12, 1966
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.2
Identifier
WP181966

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
Sep 4, 00:0017.0N 137.0E1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0017.1N 137.5E1007 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0017.2N 137.7E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0017.3N 138.0E1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0017.3N 138.6E1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 06:0017.6N 139.4E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0018.0N 140.1E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0018.5N 140.7E1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0018.9N 140.4E998 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0018.7N 139.7E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0019.2N 139.5E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0019.9N 139.2E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0021.3N 139.0E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 06:0023.3N 138.8E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 12:0025.1N 137.8E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0025.5N 136.2E45 kt986 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 00:0026.1N 134.4E50 kt986 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0027.2N 132.9E50 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0028.8N 131.9E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 18:0030.6N 131.7E45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 00:0031.8N 131.7E40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 06:0033.5N 132.3E40 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0035.3N 133.5E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0037.0N 135.2E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0038.7N 137.5E35 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0040.9N 141.8E990 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0044.0N 147.0E994 mbExtratropical
Sep 10, 18:0045.9N 151.5E992 mbExtratropical
Sep 11, 00:0047.0N 155.4E996 mbExtratropical
Sep 11, 06:0048.0N 161.0E994 mbExtratropical
Sep 11, 12:0047.8N 165.0E996 mbExtratropical
Sep 11, 18:0047.2N 168.1E996 mbExtratropical
Sep 12, 00:0047.0N 172.0E998 mbExtratropical
Sep 12, 06:0045.0N 181.0EExtratropical

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.