The 1966 season

Tropical Storm Lorna (1966)

Tropical Storm Lorna peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between October 26, 1966 and November 4, 1966, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Lorna, 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
October 26, 1966 to November 4, 1966
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.6
Identifier
WP261966

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
Oct 26, 00:009.5N 137.3EDisturbance
Oct 26, 06:0010.0N 137.4E1002 mbMixed
Oct 26, 12:0010.5N 137.6E1002 mbMixed
Oct 26, 18:0011.1N 137.8E1002 mbMixed
Oct 27, 00:0011.4N 137.8E1002 mbMixed
Oct 27, 06:0011.6N 137.7E25 kt1002 mbMixed
Oct 27, 12:0012.0N 137.7E30 kt1002 mbMixed
Oct 27, 18:0012.4N 137.5E25 kt1002 mbMixed
Oct 28, 00:0012.9N 137.2E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0013.6N 136.8E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 12:0014.3N 136.0E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 18:0015.1N 134.7E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 00:0015.6N 133.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 06:0015.7N 131.8E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 12:0015.5N 130.2E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 18:0015.3N 128.7E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 00:0015.8N 127.5E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 06:0016.5N 126.5E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 12:0016.6N 125.5E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 18:0016.6N 124.4E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 00:0016.9N 123.3E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 06:0017.4N 122.3E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 12:0018.0N 121.3E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 18:0018.3N 120.7E55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 00:0018.6N 120.6E50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 06:0019.0N 120.8E50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 12:0019.1N 121.0E50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 18:0018.7N 121.2E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 00:0018.4N 121.4E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 06:0018.2N 121.7E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 12:0018.1N 122.2E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 18:0018.1N 122.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 00:0018.3N 122.9E1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 06:0018.2N 123.5E1000 mbMixed
Nov 3, 12:0018.0N 124.0E1002 mbMixed
Nov 3, 18:0018.0N 125.0E1004 mbMixed
Nov 4, 00:0018.0N 126.0E1008 mbMixed

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.