The 1967 season

Tropical Storm Babe (1967)

Tropical Storm Babe peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between October 6, 1967 and October 11, 1967, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Babe. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
October 6, 1967 to October 11, 1967
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1176 km (731 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.1
Identifier
WP281967

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 6, 12:0020.0N 150.0E1008 mbMixed
Oct 6, 18:0020.5N 149.5E1006 mbMixed
Oct 7, 00:0021.2N 148.9E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 06:0022.0N 148.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 12:0023.0N 148.2E998 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 18:0024.0N 148.0E994 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 00:0024.9N 147.9E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 06:0025.8N 147.9E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 12:0026.8N 148.5E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 18:0027.8N 149.5E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 00:0029.0N 150.6E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 06:0030.1N 152.4E60 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 12:0031.1N 154.7E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0032.3N 157.6E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0033.3N 160.4E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0033.6N 163.8E990 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0034.0N 167.7E998 mbExtratropical
Oct 10, 18:0034.0N 171.2E1002 mbExtratropical
Oct 11, 00:0035.0N 175.3E1008 mbExtratropical
Oct 11, 06:0036.0N 179.0E1008 mbExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 1967

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.