The 1967 season

Tropical Storm Fran (1967)

Tropical Storm Fran peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between July 27, 1967 and August 5, 1967, with a lowest pressure of 982 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Fran, 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 27, 1967 to August 5, 1967
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
982 mb (29.00 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.4
Identifier
WP111967

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 27, 18:0016.4N 113.4EDisturbance
Jul 28, 00:0017.1N 114.6E998 mbMixed
Jul 28, 06:0017.1N 115.3E998 mbMixed
Jul 28, 12:0016.1N 115.7E998 mbMixed
Jul 28, 18:0015.3N 116.0E998 mbMixed
Jul 29, 00:0015.3N 116.0E998 mbMixed
Jul 29, 06:0015.5N 116.2E996 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0015.5N 116.3E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0016.2N 115.8E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0016.7N 115.2E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0016.9N 114.6E35 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0017.0N 114.1E35 kt986 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 18:0017.1N 113.6E40 kt986 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 00:0017.4N 113.3E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 06:0017.6N 112.9E60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 12:0017.9N 112.6E60 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 18:0018.2N 112.3E60 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0018.5N 112.1E50 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0018.8N 111.9E45 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0019.3N 111.7E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0019.7N 111.5E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0020.2N 111.3E50 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0020.7N 111.2E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 12:0021.4N 111.1E25 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0021.8N 110.8E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:0022.7N 110.9E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 06:0023.2N 110.8E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 12:0024.3N 110.7E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 18:0025.0N 110.4E996 mbMixed
Aug 4, 00:0025.7N 110.1E996 mbMixed
Aug 4, 06:0026.5N 109.4E996 mbMixed
Aug 4, 12:0027.4N 108.4E997 mbMixed
Aug 4, 18:0028.3N 107.4E997 mbExtratropical
Aug 5, 00:0028.8N 106.6E998 mbExtratropical
Aug 5, 06:0029.1N 106.2E997 mbExtratropical
Aug 5, 12:0029.5N 105.6E996 mbExtratropical
Aug 5, 18:0029.7N 105.0E998 mbExtratropical

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.