The 1966 season

Tropical Storm Winnie (1966)

Tropical Storm Winnie peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between August 18, 1966 and August 29, 1966, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Winnie, 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 18, 1966 to August 29, 1966
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.9
Identifier
WP141966

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 18, 06:0027.2N 132.0E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0027.5N 131.9E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0027.8N 131.7E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0027.9N 131.5E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0027.8N 131.1E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0027.6N 130.4E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0027.2N 130.4E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0027.0N 130.8E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0027.0N 131.0E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0026.9N 131.2E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0027.3N 130.9E50 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 00:0027.7N 130.6E50 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 06:0028.1N 130.3E50 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 12:0027.8N 129.7E50 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0027.6N 130.8E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0028.4N 131.9E55 kt974 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0029.3N 132.4E55 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0030.3N 132.3E60 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 18:0031.2N 131.6E60 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 00:0031.8N 130.7E40 kt987 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0032.5N 129.8E30 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0033.3N 129.0E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0034.0N 128.2E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 00:0034.7N 127.4E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0034.9N 126.8E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0035.4N 125.9E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0035.9N 125.1E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0036.6N 124.4E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0037.3N 123.7E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0037.9N 123.2E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0038.7N 122.8E1000 mbMixed
Aug 26, 00:0039.7N 122.5E1004 mbMixed
Aug 26, 06:0041.3N 122.1E1004 mbMixed
Aug 26, 12:0043.0N 122.2E1004 mbMixed
Aug 26, 18:0045.0N 123.5E1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 27, 00:0046.0N 125.1E1006 mbExtratropical
Aug 27, 06:0046.8N 126.2E1006 mbExtratropical
Aug 27, 12:0047.0N 127.3E1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 27, 18:0047.1N 128.9E1002 mbExtratropical
Aug 28, 00:0047.1N 131.0E1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 28, 06:0047.1N 134.7E1002 mbExtratropical
Aug 28, 12:0046.3N 137.0E1005 mbExtratropical
Aug 28, 18:0046.0N 140.1E1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 29, 00:0046.0N 142.8E1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 29, 06:0046.0N 144.5E1006 mbExtratropical
Aug 29, 12:0046.0N 145.0E1008 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.