The 1967 season

Tropical Depression Colette (1967)

Tropical Depression Colette peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between December 11, 1966 and December 22, 1966, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Colette, 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
South Indian
Dates
December 11, 1966 to December 22, 1966
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH051967

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
Dec 11, 06:008.9S 59.9ETropical storm
Dec 11, 12:009.4S 58.2ETropical storm
Dec 11, 18:009.7S 57.2ETropical storm
Dec 12, 00:009.8S 57.3ETropical storm
Dec 12, 06:0010.0S 57.4ETropical storm
Dec 12, 12:0010.5S 56.1ETropical storm
Dec 12, 18:0011.1S 54.7ETropical storm
Dec 13, 00:0011.4S 54.4ETropical storm
Dec 13, 06:0011.7S 53.8ETropical storm
Dec 13, 12:0011.9S 52.2ETropical storm
Dec 13, 18:0012.0S 50.5ETropical storm
Dec 14, 00:0012.1S 48.9ETropical storm
Dec 14, 06:0012.4S 47.2ETropical storm
Dec 14, 12:0013.5S 46.1ETropical storm
Dec 14, 18:0014.9S 45.3ETropical storm
Dec 15, 00:0016.5S 44.3ETropical storm
Dec 15, 06:0017.5S 43.8ETropical storm
Dec 15, 12:0017.6S 44.3EMixed
Dec 15, 18:0017.8S 45.3EMixed
Dec 16, 00:0017.9S 46.2EMixed
Dec 16, 06:0018.1S 47.2EMixed
Dec 16, 12:0018.5S 48.5EMixed
Dec 16, 18:0019.2S 49.9ETropical storm
Dec 17, 00:0019.8S 51.4ETropical storm
Dec 17, 06:0020.4S 52.5ETropical storm
Dec 17, 12:0020.5S 52.7ETropical storm
Dec 17, 18:0020.5S 52.7ETropical storm
Dec 18, 00:0020.6S 52.9ETropical storm
Dec 18, 06:0021.0S 53.0ETropical storm
Dec 18, 12:0021.6S 52.9ETropical storm
Dec 18, 18:0022.3S 52.7ETropical storm
Dec 19, 00:0023.0S 51.6ETropical storm
Dec 19, 06:0023.7S 51.1EMixed
Dec 19, 12:0024.3S 52.3EMixed
Dec 19, 18:0024.9S 53.5EMixed
Dec 20, 00:0025.5S 54.7EMixed
Dec 20, 06:0026.1S 55.8EMixed
Dec 20, 12:0026.7S 56.7EMixed
Dec 20, 18:0027.2S 57.6EMixed
Dec 21, 00:0027.4S 59.1EMixed
Dec 21, 06:0027.6S 60.6EMixed
Dec 21, 12:0028.2S 62.0EMixed
Dec 21, 18:0029.2S 63.4EMixed
Dec 22, 00:0033.8S 61.6EExtratropical
Dec 22, 06:0034.9S 62.1EMixed

Other South Indian 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.