The 1967 season

Tropical Storm Ruby (1967)

Tropical Storm Ruby peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between January 28, 1967 and February 9, 1967, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Ruby, 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
January 28, 1967 to February 9, 1967
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 55 km (34 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.0
Identifier
WP011967

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
Jan 28, 00:005.0N 140.1ETropical storm
Jan 28, 06:005.1N 140.1E1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 28, 12:005.1N 140.0E998 mbTropical storm
Jan 28, 18:005.1N 139.8E998 mbTropical storm
Jan 29, 00:005.1N 139.6E996 mbTropical storm
Jan 29, 06:005.4N 139.2E998 mbTropical storm
Jan 29, 12:005.7N 139.1E1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 29, 18:005.7N 139.3E1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 30, 00:005.6N 139.3E1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 30, 06:005.6N 139.2E1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 30, 12:005.6N 139.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 30, 18:005.7N 138.7E1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 00:005.7N 138.6E1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 06:005.8N 138.3E1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 12:006.0N 137.8E1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 18:006.1N 137.2E1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 00:006.2N 136.6E1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 06:006.5N 135.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 12:006.9N 134.2E1004 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 18:007.1N 133.4E1004 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 00:007.4N 132.8E1004 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 06:007.6N 132.2E1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 12:007.9N 131.8E1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 18:008.1N 131.4E1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 3, 00:008.5N 131.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 3, 06:009.1N 130.9E1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 3, 12:009.5N 130.9E1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 3, 18:0010.0N 130.9E1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 4, 00:0013.8N 131.1E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 4, 06:0013.3N 130.7E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 4, 12:0013.1N 130.8E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 4, 18:0012.7N 131.1E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 5, 00:0012.3N 131.6E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 5, 06:0011.6N 131.8E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 5, 12:0010.9N 131.8E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 5, 18:0010.2N 131.8E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 00:009.5N 131.7E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 06:008.8N 131.5E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 12:008.2N 131.3E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 18:007.4N 130.9E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 7, 00:006.9N 130.5E30 kt1002 mbMixed
Feb 7, 06:006.6N 130.1E1002 mbMixed
Feb 7, 12:006.4N 129.5E1002 mbMixed
Feb 7, 18:006.3N 128.8E1002 mbMixed
Feb 8, 00:006.1N 128.2E1002 mbMixed
Feb 8, 06:006.2N 127.9E1002 mbMixed
Feb 8, 12:006.3N 127.8E1002 mbMixed
Feb 8, 18:006.5N 127.6E1002 mbMixed
Feb 9, 00:006.7N 127.4E1004 mbMixed
Feb 9, 06:006.8N 127.2E1004 mbMixed
Feb 9, 12:007.0N 127.0E1004 mbMixed

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.