The 1967 season

Typhoon Ellen (1967)

Typhoon Ellen reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between July 25, 1967 and August 6, 1967, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Ellen. 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
July 25, 1967 to August 6, 1967
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
9.6
Identifier
WP371967

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 25, 00:0015.0N 152.6ETropical storm
Jul 25, 06:0014.3N 152.0ETropical depression
Jul 25, 12:0013.7N 151.5ETropical depression
Jul 25, 18:0013.3N 150.9ETropical depression
Jul 26, 00:0013.0N 150.2ETropical depression
Jul 26, 06:0013.1N 150.0ETropical depression
Jul 26, 12:0013.2N 149.7ETropical depression
Jul 26, 18:0013.8N 149.1ETropical depression
Jul 27, 00:0014.9N 149.1ETropical depression
Jul 27, 06:0015.9N 149.4ETropical depression
Jul 27, 12:0016.9N 149.2E998 mbTropical depression
Jul 27, 18:0018.9N 149.9E996 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0021.0N 150.9E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0022.1N 151.2E55 kt990 mbMixed
Jul 28, 12:0022.8N 151.5E55 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0023.4N 151.9E60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0023.6N 152.1E65 kt986 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0023.6N 152.1E65 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0023.6N 152.3E65 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0023.1N 152.9E65 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0022.6N 153.4E65 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0022.3N 154.2E70 kt978 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0022.3N 155.2E75 kt976 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 18:0022.8N 156.2E75 kt974 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 00:0023.5N 157.0E80 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 06:0024.4N 157.4E75 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 12:0025.6N 157.5E70 kt972 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 18:0026.7N 157.5E70 kt972 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0027.8N 157.3E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0029.2N 157.0E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0030.6N 156.5E55 kt978 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0032.0N 155.9E50 kt978 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0033.5N 155.3E50 kt978 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0035.2N 154.1E50 kt978 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 12:0037.3N 153.3E45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0038.0N 151.0E40 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:0042.5N 148.0E35 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 06:0044.0N 147.0E35 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 12:0046.0N 146.0E30 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 18:0047.0N 151.6E990 mbMixed
Aug 4, 00:0050.0N 152.0E992 mbMixed
Aug 4, 06:0053.0N 152.5E992 mbMixed
Aug 4, 12:0055.5N 154.8E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 18:0057.0N 158.9E994 mbExtratropical
Aug 5, 00:0058.0N 163.0E996 mbExtratropical
Aug 5, 06:0058.0N 168.0E996 mbExtratropical
Aug 5, 12:0058.0N 173.0E996 mbExtratropical
Aug 5, 18:0057.0N 177.1E996 mbExtratropical
Aug 6, 00:0056.0N 182.0EExtratropical

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.