The 1968 season

Tropical Storm Nadine (1968)

Tropical Storm Nadine peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between July 20, 1968 and July 28, 1968, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Nadine, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1968 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
July 20, 1968 to July 28, 1968
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.0
Identifier
WP051968

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
Jul 20, 00:0018.6N 133.0E1006 mbMixed
Jul 20, 06:0018.7N 132.1E1004 mbMixed
Jul 20, 12:0018.6N 131.1E1004 mbMixed
Jul 20, 18:0018.4N 130.0E1004 mbMixed
Jul 21, 00:0018.3N 129.2E1004 mbMixed
Jul 21, 06:0018.4N 128.9E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0018.4N 128.2E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0018.0N 127.8E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0018.2N 128.1E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0018.4N 127.2E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0018.2N 126.2E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0017.7N 126.3E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0018.2N 126.7E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0018.8N 125.9E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0019.8N 125.8E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0020.6N 125.4E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 00:0020.4N 124.6E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 06:0020.0N 124.0E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 12:0019.8N 124.4E55 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 18:0019.9N 122.7E60 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 00:0020.4N 122.0E60 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 06:0021.2N 121.6E60 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0022.0N 120.8E55 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0022.4N 119.6E50 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0022.3N 118.4E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0022.0N 117.3E35 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0021.4N 117.0E30 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0021.7N 117.2E30 kt986 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0021.8N 116.8E35 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0021.9N 117.1E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0022.0N 117.6E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0022.2N 118.1E45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0022.5N 118.7E45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0022.7N 119.5E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0023.1N 120.5E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0023.9N 121.3E25 kt997 mbMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 1968

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.