The 1967 season

Tropical Storm Ivy (1967)

Tropical Storm Ivy peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between December 16, 1967 and December 21, 1967, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Ivy. 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
December 16, 1967 to December 21, 1967
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 855 km (531 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.0
Identifier
WP351967

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
Dec 16, 06:009.8N 135.5E1006 mbMixed
Dec 16, 12:0010.7N 135.0E1006 mbMixed
Dec 16, 18:0011.3N 134.7E1004 mbTropical storm
Dec 17, 00:0011.8N 134.3E998 mbTropical storm
Dec 17, 06:0012.1N 133.9E25 kt992 mbTropical storm
Dec 17, 12:0012.4N 133.6E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Dec 17, 18:0012.5N 133.6E35 kt984 mbTropical storm
Dec 18, 00:0012.5N 133.6E40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Dec 18, 06:0012.8N 133.7E45 kt984 mbTropical storm
Dec 18, 12:0013.2N 134.2E50 kt984 mbTropical storm
Dec 18, 18:0013.5N 135.1E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Dec 19, 00:0013.1N 135.5E60 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 19, 06:0012.8N 135.4E55 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Dec 19, 12:0012.7N 135.2E45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Dec 19, 18:0013.0N 136.0E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Dec 20, 00:0012.0N 136.1E25 kt1006 mbMixed
Dec 20, 06:0011.0N 136.2E20 kt1006 mbMixed
Dec 20, 12:0013.0N 137.0E1008 mbMixed
Dec 20, 18:0012.5N 136.5E1008 mbMixed
Dec 21, 00:0012.0N 136.0E1010 mbTropical storm
Dec 21, 06:0011.5N 135.5E1008 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.