The 1967 season

Super Typhoon Emma (1967)

Super Typhoon Emma reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between October 30, 1967 and November 8, 1967, with a lowest pressure of 908 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Emma, 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 30, 1967 to November 8, 1967
Peak strength
Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)
Lowest pressure
908 mb (26.81 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
22.5
Identifier
WP311967

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 30, 00:006.5N 150.0E1008 mbMixed
Oct 30, 06:006.7N 148.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 12:007.0N 146.2E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 18:007.3N 144.9E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 00:007.8N 143.9E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 06:008.1N 142.2E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 12:008.3N 140.7E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 18:008.4N 139.3E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 00:008.6N 137.9E80 kt975 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 06:009.0N 136.6E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 12:009.3N 135.2E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 18:009.7N 133.7E115 kt950 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 00:0010.2N 132.3E125 kt940 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 06:0010.7N 130.9E135 kt930 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 12:0011.3N 129.5E140 kt930 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 18:0011.8N 128.1E140 kt920 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 00:0012.1N 126.6E130 kt908 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 06:0012.6N 125.3E120 kt930 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 12:0012.9N 124.2E110 kt950 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 18:0013.4N 123.1E95 kt960 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 00:0014.0N 121.9E80 kt965 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 06:0014.7N 120.6E65 kt970 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 12:0015.5N 119.3E60 kt970 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 18:0016.1N 118.3E55 kt975 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 00:0016.4N 117.6E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 06:0016.7N 117.1E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 12:0017.2N 116.4E60 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 18:0017.4N 115.9E60 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 00:0017.7N 115.4E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 06:0018.0N 114.8E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 12:0018.3N 114.3E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 18:0018.7N 113.7E45 kt984 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 00:0019.2N 113.0E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 06:0019.6N 112.3E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 12:0020.1N 111.5E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 18:0020.7N 110.8E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 00:0021.1N 110.6E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 06:0021.6N 109.6E1006 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 12:0021.5N 108.8E1010 mbMixed
Nov 8, 18:0021.4N 108.1E1010 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.