The 1967 season

Unnamed cyclone (1967)

Unnamed cyclone reached Category 1 in the South Pacific between February 28, 1967 and March 9, 1967.

Radar

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
South Pacific
Dates
February 28, 1967 to March 9, 1967
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 248 km (154 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.1
Identifier
SH211967

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
Feb 28, 18:0021.7S 158.6E45 ktTropical storm
Mar 1, 00:0021.7S 158.6E50 ktTropical storm
Mar 1, 06:0021.9S 158.7E50 ktTropical storm
Mar 1, 12:0022.2S 158.9E35 ktTropical storm
Mar 1, 18:0022.5S 159.1E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 2, 00:0022.8S 159.4E35 ktTropical storm
Mar 2, 06:0023.1S 159.6E40 ktTropical storm
Mar 2, 12:0023.4S 159.8E50 ktTropical storm
Mar 2, 18:0023.7S 159.9E55 ktTropical storm
Mar 3, 00:0024.1S 160.0E50 ktTropical storm
Mar 3, 06:0024.7S 160.1E45 ktTropical storm
Mar 3, 12:0025.2S 159.9E40 ktTropical storm
Mar 3, 18:0025.8S 159.5E40 ktTropical storm
Mar 4, 00:0026.3S 159.0E50 ktTropical storm
Mar 4, 06:0027.0S 158.4E60 ktTropical storm
Mar 4, 12:0027.8S 158.1E65 ktTropical storm
Mar 4, 18:0028.7S 158.2E45 ktTropical storm
Mar 5, 00:0029.7S 158.5E55 ktTropical storm
Mar 5, 06:0030.8S 159.0E35 ktTropical storm
Mar 5, 12:0031.9S 159.3E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 5, 18:0033.1S 159.7E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 6, 00:0034.4S 160.1E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 6, 06:0035.6S 160.6E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 6, 12:0036.9S 161.8E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 6, 18:0038.1S 162.9E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 7, 00:0038.4S 163.7E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 7, 06:0038.4S 164.2E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 7, 12:0038.6S 164.4E20 ktTropical storm
Mar 7, 18:0038.8S 164.8E20 ktTropical storm
Mar 8, 00:0039.2S 165.2E20 ktTropical storm
Mar 8, 06:0039.7S 165.7E20 ktTropical storm
Mar 8, 12:0040.9S 166.0E20 ktTropical storm
Mar 8, 18:0039.2S 165.2ETropical storm
Mar 9, 00:0039.6S 165.6ETropical storm
Mar 9, 06:0040.9S 166.1ETropical storm
Mar 9, 12:0042.4S 166.3ETropical storm

Other South 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.