Super Typhoon Opal (1967)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

August 29, 1967 to September 19, 1967

Peak strength

Category 5, 155 kt (178 mph)

Lowest pressure

920 mb (27.17 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 219 km (136 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

57.5

Identifier

WP201967

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.

• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm RubyWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm40 kt · 996 mb
• Typhoon SallyWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 285 kt · 980 mb
• Tropical Storm ThereseWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm60 kt · 990 mb
• Typhoon VioletWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 4120 kt · 930 mb
• Tropical Storm WildaWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm40 kt · 1004 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression
• Typhoon AnitaWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 180 kt · 975 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression
• Typhoon BillieWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 175 kt · 980 mb
• Typhoon ClaraWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 3100 kt · 960 mb
• Tropical Depression DotWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression985 mb
• Tropical Storm DotWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm60 kt · 975 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression
• Typhoon EllenWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 180 kt · 970 mb
• Tropical Storm FranWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm60 kt · 982 mb
• Tropical Storm GeorgiaWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm60 kt · 975 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression1001 mb
• Tropical Storm HopeWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm60 kt · 984 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression988 mb
• Tropical Storm IrisWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm40 kt · 994 mb
• Tropical Storm LouiseWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm55 kt · 980 mb
• Typhoon KateWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 170 kt · 982 mb
• Tropical Storm JoanWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm55 kt · 988 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression
• Typhoon MargeWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 4125 kt · 940 mb
• Typhoon NoraWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 170 kt · 990 mb
• Tropical Storm PatsyWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm50 kt · 995 mb
• Typhoon RuthWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 3110 kt · 940 mb
• Tropical Storm ThelmaWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm50 kt · 964 mb
• Tropical Storm VeraWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm45 kt · 994 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression
• Typhoon WandaWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 295 kt · 962 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression986 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression
• Typhoon AmyWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 180 kt · 962 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression992 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm BabeWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm60 kt · 980 mb
• Super Typhoon CarlaWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 5160 kt · 900 mb
• Typhoon DinahWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 3100 kt · 950 mb
• Super Typhoon EmmaWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 5140 kt · 908 mb
• Typhoon FredaWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 285 kt · 972 mb
• Super Typhoon GildaWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 4130 kt · 910 mb
• Typhoon HarrietWestern Pacific · 1967Cat 3110 kt · 950 mb
• Tropical Depression GildaWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm IvyWestern Pacific · 1967Tropical Storm60 kt · 980 mb

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.

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.