The 1967 season

Typhoon Clara (1967)

Typhoon Clara reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between July 2, 1967 and July 12, 1967, with a lowest pressure of 960 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Clara, 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
July 2, 1967 to July 12, 1967
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
960 mb (28.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
12.1
Identifier
WP081967

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
Jul 2, 00:0020.3N 154.7E1008 mbMixed
Jul 2, 06:0020.8N 154.1E1006 mbMixed
Jul 2, 12:0021.1N 153.6E1006 mbMixed
Jul 2, 18:0021.5N 152.9E1006 mbMixed
Jul 3, 00:0021.7N 152.4E1006 mbMixed
Jul 3, 06:0022.1N 151.6E1006 mbMixed
Jul 3, 12:0022.2N 151.1E1006 mbMixed
Jul 3, 18:0022.3N 150.5E1006 mbMixed
Jul 4, 00:0022.3N 149.9E1006 mbMixed
Jul 4, 06:0022.3N 149.3E1006 mbMixed
Jul 4, 12:0022.3N 148.8E1006 mbMixed
Jul 4, 18:0022.3N 148.2E1006 mbMixed
Jul 5, 00:0022.2N 147.7E1006 mbMixed
Jul 5, 06:0022.0N 147.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 12:0021.8N 146.3E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 18:0021.6N 145.6E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 6, 00:0021.0N 144.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 6, 06:0020.8N 143.6E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 6, 12:0020.1N 142.3E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 6, 18:0019.5N 140.9E60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jul 7, 00:0019.2N 139.5E65 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jul 7, 06:0019.1N 138.3E60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jul 7, 12:0019.1N 137.0E60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jul 7, 18:0019.1N 135.8E60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 00:0019.2N 134.5E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 06:0019.3N 133.2E65 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 12:0019.5N 132.0E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 18:0019.9N 130.9E75 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 00:0020.4N 129.8E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 06:0020.9N 128.7E70 kt978 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 12:0021.4N 127.7E70 kt978 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 18:0022.0N 126.7E75 kt976 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 00:0022.4N 125.8E80 kt974 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 06:0022.7N 125.0E90 kt968 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 12:0023.1N 124.2E100 kt968 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 18:0023.4N 123.4E100 kt965 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 00:0023.7N 122.6E95 kt960 mbXX
Jul 11, 06:0024.0N 121.7E80 kt965 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 12:0024.3N 120.8E70 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 18:0024.8N 120.1E50 kt986 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0025.5N 119.5E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0026.1N 119.2E25 ktMixed

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.