The 1967 season

Super Typhoon Carla (1967)

Super Typhoon Carla reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between October 10, 1967 and October 20, 1967, with a lowest pressure of 900 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Carla, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1967 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 10, 1967 to October 20, 1967
Peak strength
Category 5, 160 kt (184 mph)
Lowest pressure
900 mb (26.58 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
30.4
Identifier
WP291967

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 10, 00:0011.0N 150.0E1005 mbMixed
Oct 10, 06:0010.2N 149.2E1005 mbMixed
Oct 10, 12:009.7N 148.4E1006 mbMixed
Oct 10, 18:009.5N 147.3E1005 mbMixed
Oct 11, 00:009.6N 146.3E1005 mbMixed
Oct 11, 06:009.8N 145.6E1002 mbMixed
Oct 11, 12:0010.0N 144.6E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0010.2N 143.7E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0010.4N 142.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0010.9N 141.3E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0011.2N 140.3E50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0011.3N 139.4E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0011.2N 138.7E60 kt986 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0011.3N 137.8E65 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0011.7N 137.0E75 kt978 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0012.0N 136.2E90 kt968 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0012.4N 135.6E110 kt952 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0013.0N 134.8E130 kt932 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 12:0013.5N 134.0E150 kt918 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 18:0014.1N 133.0E160 kt906 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 00:0014.6N 131.8E160 kt900 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 06:0015.3N 130.5E155 kt910 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 12:0015.6N 129.0E150 kt920 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 18:0015.6N 127.8E140 kt930 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 00:0015.8N 126.6E130 kt940 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 06:0016.5N 125.3E120 kt945 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 12:0017.3N 124.1E110 kt950 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 18:0017.8N 122.7E110 kt960 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 00:0017.9N 121.7E100 kt965 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 06:0018.2N 121.2E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 12:0018.7N 120.6E75 kt975 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 18:0018.9N 119.6E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 00:0018.9N 118.6E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 06:0019.0N 117.4E70 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 12:0019.1N 116.1E65 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 18:0019.2N 114.7E60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 00:0019.6N 113.4E50 kt984 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 06:0020.3N 112.1E40 kt986 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 12:0020.7N 110.6E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 18:0020.8N 109.3E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 00:0020.8N 108.3E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm

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.