The 1967 season

Tropical Storm Iris (1967)

Tropical Storm Iris peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between August 10, 1967 and August 18, 1967, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Iris. 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
August 10, 1967 to August 18, 1967
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Identifier
WP141967

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
Aug 10, 06:0010.0N 145.2E1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 12:0010.2N 144.1E1008 mbMixed
Aug 10, 18:0010.9N 142.9E1008 mbMixed
Aug 11, 00:0011.4N 141.9E1008 mbMixed
Aug 11, 06:0011.9N 140.8E1004 mbMixed
Aug 11, 12:0012.5N 139.5E1006 mbMixed
Aug 11, 18:0013.1N 138.4E1006 mbMixed
Aug 12, 00:0013.5N 136.8E1006 mbMixed
Aug 12, 06:0013.7N 135.0E1006 mbMixed
Aug 12, 12:0014.2N 133.0E1006 mbMixed
Aug 12, 18:0014.4N 130.3E1006 mbMixed
Aug 13, 00:0014.9N 128.0E1006 mbMixed
Aug 13, 06:0015.3N 126.5E1006 mbMixed
Aug 13, 12:0015.8N 125.0E1006 mbMixed
Aug 13, 18:0016.9N 123.7E1004 mbMixed
Aug 14, 00:0017.8N 122.9E1002 mbMixed
Aug 14, 06:0018.1N 121.5E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0018.4N 119.2E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0019.2N 117.5E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0020.0N 115.2E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0020.4N 114.3E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0020.7N 113.1E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0021.1N 112.1E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0021.4N 111.3E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0021.8N 111.0E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0022.0N 110.5E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0021.7N 111.2E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0021.9N 110.6E996 mbMixed
Aug 17, 06:0022.2N 109.7E996 mbMixed
Aug 17, 12:0022.3N 108.5E998 mbMixed
Aug 17, 18:0022.6N 107.5E999 mbMixed
Aug 18, 00:0022.8N 106.6E1000 mbMixed
Aug 18, 06:0023.0N 105.9E1000 mbMixed
Aug 18, 12:0023.0N 105.3E1000 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.