The 1967 season

Tropical Storm Patsy (1967)

Tropical Storm Patsy peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between September 3, 1967 and September 7, 1967, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Patsy, 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
September 3, 1967 to September 7, 1967
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.9
Identifier
WP211967

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
Sep 3, 00:0021.0N 124.0E1004 mbMixed
Sep 3, 06:0021.0N 123.0E1004 mbMixed
Sep 3, 12:0021.0N 122.0E1004 mbMixed
Sep 3, 18:0020.2N 121.0E1004 mbMixed
Sep 4, 00:0019.5N 120.3E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0018.9N 119.1E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0018.8N 118.2E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0018.9N 116.7E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0019.0N 115.2E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 06:0019.1N 113.7E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0019.2N 112.0E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0019.2N 110.5E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0019.0N 109.5E998 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0018.9N 108.3E996 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0019.0N 107.3E998 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0019.2N 106.3E1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0019.1N 105.2E1002 mbMixed
Sep 7, 06:0019.0N 104.0E1002 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.