The 1967 season

Super Typhoon Gilda (1967)

Super Typhoon Gilda reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between November 7, 1967 and November 19, 1967, with a lowest pressure of 910 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Gilda, 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.

Open the live map with storms, cones and warnings

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
November 7, 1967 to November 19, 1967
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
910 mb (26.87 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
37.8
Identifier
WP331967

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
Nov 7, 06:009.2N 160.3E1003 mbMixed
Nov 7, 12:009.1N 159.8E1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 18:008.9N 159.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 00:008.7N 158.8E1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 06:006.9N 157.7E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 12:007.0N 157.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 18:007.4N 156.9E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 00:007.8N 156.7E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 06:008.3N 156.8E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 12:008.7N 156.9E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 18:009.0N 157.1E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Nov 10, 00:009.6N 157.0E55 kt986 mbTropical storm
Nov 10, 06:0010.0N 156.3E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Nov 10, 12:0010.3N 155.3E65 kt976 mbTropical storm
Nov 10, 18:0010.4N 154.1E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Nov 11, 00:0010.6N 152.9E75 kt970 mbTropical storm
Nov 11, 06:0011.1N 151.9E85 kt966 mbTropical storm
Nov 11, 12:0011.6N 151.0E95 kt962 mbTropical storm
Nov 11, 18:0012.1N 150.1E110 kt962 mbTropical storm
Nov 12, 00:0012.7N 149.1E115 kt964 mbTropical storm
Nov 12, 06:0013.1N 148.1E115 kt958 mbTropical storm
Nov 12, 12:0013.5N 147.1E120 kt942 mbTropical storm
Nov 12, 18:0013.9N 146.1E120 kt935 mbTropical storm
Nov 13, 00:0014.2N 145.1E120 kt935 mbTropical storm
Nov 13, 06:0014.5N 143.9E125 kt920 mbTropical storm
Nov 13, 12:0014.7N 142.7E125 kt915 mbTropical storm
Nov 13, 18:0015.0N 141.1E130 kt910 mbTropical storm
Nov 14, 00:0015.3N 139.4E130 kt910 mbTropical storm
Nov 14, 06:0015.7N 137.6E130 kt910 mbTropical storm
Nov 14, 12:0016.1N 135.7E130 kt910 mbTropical storm
Nov 14, 18:0016.4N 134.0E125 kt910 mbTropical storm
Nov 15, 00:0016.7N 132.6E120 kt915 mbTropical storm
Nov 15, 06:0017.2N 131.2E120 kt920 mbTropical storm
Nov 15, 12:0017.8N 129.8E120 kt920 mbTropical storm
Nov 15, 18:0018.5N 128.4E115 kt925 mbTropical storm
Nov 16, 00:0019.0N 127.4E110 kt935 mbTropical storm
Nov 16, 06:0019.6N 126.4E105 kt940 mbTropical storm
Nov 16, 12:0020.3N 125.4E100 kt945 mbTropical storm
Nov 16, 18:0020.7N 124.7E95 kt950 mbTropical storm
Nov 17, 00:0021.1N 124.2E90 kt955 mbTropical storm
Nov 17, 06:0021.5N 123.7E85 kt955 mbTropical storm
Nov 17, 12:0021.9N 123.2E80 kt955 mbTropical storm
Nov 17, 18:0022.4N 122.7E80 kt960 mbTropical storm
Nov 18, 00:0023.1N 122.1E75 kt970 mbXX
Nov 18, 06:0023.9N 121.1E50 kt980 mbXX
Nov 18, 12:0024.5N 120.5E40 kt990 mbXX
Nov 18, 18:0025.2N 120.2E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Nov 19, 00:0026.4N 120.8E1006 mbTropical storm
Nov 19, 06:0027.7N 121.7E1010 mbTropical storm
Nov 19, 12:0028.5N 122.8E1012 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.