The 1967 season

Typhoon Kate (1967)

Typhoon Kate reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between August 16, 1967 and August 24, 1967, with a lowest pressure of 982 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Kate, 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
August 16, 1967 to August 24, 1967
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
982 mb (29.00 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.9
Identifier
WP171967

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 16, 06:0013.9N 132.1E1004 mbMixed
Aug 16, 12:0013.9N 131.5E1004 mbMixed
Aug 16, 18:0014.0N 130.6E1004 mbMixed
Aug 17, 00:0014.1N 129.8E1002 mbMixed
Aug 17, 06:0014.2N 128.6E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0014.6N 127.5E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0014.9N 126.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0015.5N 125.2E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0016.3N 124.3E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0017.0N 123.4E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0017.6N 122.3E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0017.9N 121.2E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0018.1N 120.8E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0018.1N 119.4E40 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0018.2N 118.2E45 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0018.4N 116.9E50 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0018.8N 115.9E55 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0019.2N 115.5E60 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0019.4N 115.1E65 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 00:0020.1N 114.5E70 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 06:0021.1N 113.7E65 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 12:0022.3N 112.9E40 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0023.0N 110.8E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0025.5N 107.0E30 kt994 mbMixed
Aug 22, 06:0028.0N 104.0E25 kt996 mbMixed
Aug 22, 12:0025.4N 109.1E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 18:0026.0N 108.5E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 00:0026.8N 107.2E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0027.4N 106.5E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0028.0N 105.6E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0028.5N 104.8E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 00:0029.0N 103.8E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0029.0N 103.0E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0029.0N 102.0E996 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.