The 1967 season

Tropical Storm Thelma (1967)

Tropical Storm Thelma peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between September 10, 1967 and September 15, 1967, with a lowest pressure of 964 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Thelma, 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 10, 1967 to September 15, 1967
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
964 mb (28.47 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 68 km (42 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.6
Identifier
WP231967

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 10, 00:0028.8N 167.1E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0029.3N 166.2E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0029.7N 164.8E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0029.9N 162.8E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0029.8N 160.1E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0029.8N 157.1E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0030.2N 154.3E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0031.0N 151.6E50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0032.0N 149.2E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0033.4N 147.3E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0035.2N 146.4E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0036.9N 146.4E998 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0040.0N 146.2E998 mbMixed
Sep 13, 06:0043.0N 147.0E1000 mbExtratropical
Sep 13, 12:0045.0N 149.9E1000 mbExtratropical
Sep 13, 18:0047.6N 153.9E998 mbExtratropical
Sep 14, 00:0049.0N 157.0E994 mbExtratropical
Sep 14, 06:0050.0N 160.6E994 mbExtratropical
Sep 14, 12:0050.6N 163.2E984 mbExtratropical
Sep 14, 18:0052.6N 169.0E982 mbExtratropical
Sep 15, 00:0054.0N 171.0E976 mbExtratropical
Sep 15, 06:0054.0N 176.0E964 mbExtratropical
Sep 15, 12:0052.0N 182.0EExtratropical

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.