The 1968 season

Tropical Storm Rose (1968)

Tropical Storm Rose peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between August 5, 1968 and August 15, 1968, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Rose, 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
August 5, 1968 to August 15, 1968
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.9
Identifier
WP081968

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
Aug 5, 00:0015.0N 141.0E1008 mbMixed
Aug 5, 06:0015.0N 140.2E1006 mbMixed
Aug 5, 12:0014.9N 139.3E1008 mbMixed
Aug 5, 18:0014.9N 138.3E1006 mbMixed
Aug 6, 00:0014.9N 137.4E1008 mbMixed
Aug 6, 06:0015.0N 136.4E1006 mbMixed
Aug 6, 12:0015.1N 135.6E1006 mbMixed
Aug 6, 18:0015.2N 134.7E1006 mbMixed
Aug 7, 00:0015.2N 133.8E1006 mbMixed
Aug 7, 06:0015.3N 132.9E1004 mbMixed
Aug 7, 12:0015.4N 132.2E1004 mbMixed
Aug 7, 18:0015.6N 131.3E1004 mbMixed
Aug 8, 00:0015.8N 130.7E1004 mbMixed
Aug 8, 06:0016.1N 129.6E1002 mbMixed
Aug 8, 12:0016.3N 128.8E1002 mbMixed
Aug 8, 18:0016.6N 128.0E1002 mbMixed
Aug 9, 00:0016.8N 127.2E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 06:0017.0N 126.4E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0017.1N 125.5E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 18:0017.2N 124.6E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 00:0017.4N 123.5E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 06:0017.8N 121.9E25 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 12:0018.1N 120.0E30 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 18:0018.3N 118.3E40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 00:0018.3N 116.8E45 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 06:0018.2N 115.5E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 12:0018.2N 114.2E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 18:0018.4N 113.1E60 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 00:0018.7N 111.9E60 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 06:0018.9N 110.9E60 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0019.2N 110.0E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 18:0019.5N 109.1E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 00:0019.8N 108.2E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 06:0019.9N 107.2E35 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 12:0020.1N 106.3E30 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0020.1N 105.4E985 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0020.0N 104.6E990 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0020.0N 103.9E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0020.0N 103.0E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0020.0N 102.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0021.0N 101.0E1000 mbTropical storm

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.