The 1967 season

Typhoon Marge (1967)

Typhoon Marge reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between August 23, 1967 and August 30, 1967, with a lowest pressure of 940 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Marge, 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 23, 1967 to August 30, 1967
Peak strength
Category 4, 125 kt (144 mph)
Lowest pressure
940 mb (27.76 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
11.0
Identifier
WP181967

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 23, 06:0018.3N 144.0EDisturbance
Aug 23, 12:0018.3N 143.2ETropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0018.4N 142.4E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 00:0018.6N 141.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0018.8N 140.1E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0019.0N 139.0E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0019.1N 137.9E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0019.4N 136.9E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0019.8N 135.6E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0020.1N 134.2E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0020.3N 132.7E50 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0020.2N 131.2E65 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0020.0N 129.5E85 kt976 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0019.7N 128.1E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0019.2N 126.4E120 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0018.4N 125.2E125 kt944 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0017.8N 124.2E120 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0017.4N 123.5E110 kt945 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0016.9N 123.1E95 kt956 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0017.2N 123.0E75 kt976 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0017.4N 122.8E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0018.1N 122.7E55 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0018.9N 122.2E45 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0019.3N 121.4E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0019.8N 120.0E990 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0020.0N 119.3E992 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0020.1N 118.5E992 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0020.3N 117.8E994 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.