The 1966 season

Typhoon Flossie (1966)

Typhoon Flossie reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between September 9, 1966 and September 21, 1966, with a lowest pressure of 965 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Flossie, 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 9, 1966 to September 21, 1966
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure
965 mb (28.50 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 848 km (527 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.2
Identifier
WP201966

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 9, 06:0016.0N 151.0E1008 mbMixed
Sep 9, 12:0015.9N 149.5E1008 mbMixed
Sep 9, 18:0015.9N 148.0E1008 mbMixed
Sep 10, 00:0015.9N 147.0E1008 mbMixed
Sep 10, 06:0016.0N 146.0E1006 mbMixed
Sep 10, 12:0016.1N 145.0E1006 mbMixed
Sep 10, 18:0016.5N 144.4E1004 mbMixed
Sep 11, 00:0017.0N 143.6E1005 mbMixed
Sep 11, 06:0017.8N 143.3E1002 mbMixed
Sep 11, 12:0018.7N 143.3E1002 mbMixed
Sep 11, 18:0019.5N 143.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0020.2N 142.5E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0020.6N 142.4E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0020.6N 140.8E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0020.7N 139.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0021.3N 138.9E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0021.5N 139.4E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0021.7N 140.3E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0021.8N 141.1E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0022.0N 142.0E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0022.2N 142.9E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0022.4N 143.2E50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0022.6N 143.4E50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0022.8N 143.9E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0023.2N 144.3E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0023.7N 144.8E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0024.5N 145.4E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0025.7N 146.0E50 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0026.8N 146.3E55 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0028.0N 146.6E60 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0029.1N 146.9E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0030.2N 147.5E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0031.2N 148.3E65 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0032.0N 149.2E50 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0033.0N 150.4E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0033.9N 151.7E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0034.0N 154.5E40 kt998 mbMixed
Sep 18, 12:0034.0N 156.5E30 kt1002 mbMixed
Sep 18, 18:0035.0N 160.0E25 kt1006 mbMixed
Sep 19, 00:0034.0N 161.0E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 19, 06:0034.0N 163.0E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 19, 12:0034.0N 164.9E1010 mbExtratropical
Sep 19, 18:0034.0N 166.5E1010 mbExtratropical
Sep 20, 00:0034.0N 168.1E1012 mbExtratropical
Sep 20, 06:0034.0N 169.8E1012 mbExtratropical
Sep 20, 12:0034.2N 171.6E1014 mbExtratropical
Sep 20, 18:0034.6N 173.5E1014 mbExtratropical
Sep 21, 00:0035.0N 175.6E1016 mbExtratropical

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.