Tropical Storm Kathleen (1968)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

August 24, 1968 to September 3, 1968

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)

Landfall

No; closest approach 599 km (372 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

3.0

Identifier

EP111968

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.

• Tropical Storm AnnetteEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Storm45 kt
• Tropical Storm BonnyEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Depression25 kt
• Tropical Storm CelesteEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Storm45 kt
• Tropical Storm DianaEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Storm45 kt
• Tropical Storm EstelleEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Storm45 kt
• Tropical Depression EstelleEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Depression25 kt
• Hurricane FernandaEastern Pacific · 1968Cat 175 kt
• Tropical Storm GwenEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Storm45 kt
• Tropical Storm HyacinthEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Storm45 kt
• Hurricane JoanneEastern Pacific · 1968Cat 175 kt
• Tropical Storm IvaEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Storm45 kt
• Tropical Storm VirginiaEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Storm50 kt
• Hurricane LizaEastern Pacific · 1968Cat 175 kt
• Tropical Storm MadelineEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Depression25 kt
• Hurricane NaomiEastern Pacific · 1968Cat 175 kt
• Tropical Storm OrlaEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Storm50 kt
• Hurricane PaulineEastern Pacific · 1968Cat 175 kt · 1008 mb
• Hurricane RebeccaEastern Pacific · 1968Cat 175 kt
• Tropical Storm SimoneEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Storm45 kt
• Tropical Storm TaraEastern Pacific · 1968Tropical Storm45 kt

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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.