The 1968 season

Tropical Storm Trix (1968)

Tropical Storm Trix peaked at 55 kt in the Western Pacific between August 22, 1968 and September 2, 1968, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Trix, 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 22, 1968 to September 2, 1968
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.7
Identifier
WP101968

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 22, 00:0020.0N 138.3E1004 mbMixed
Aug 22, 06:0021.7N 137.1E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0022.3N 136.2E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 18:0022.9N 135.3E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 00:0023.3N 134.3E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0023.7N 133.2E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0024.3N 131.9E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0024.5N 130.8E30 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 00:0024.5N 129.8E30 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0024.2N 128.9E35 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0023.4N 128.6E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0022.8N 129.4E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0023.4N 130.2E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0024.4N 130.2E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0024.9N 129.4E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0024.6N 128.7E40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0024.7N 129.4E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0025.4N 129.3E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0025.1N 129.1E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0025.4N 129.5E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0025.9N 129.3E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0026.9N 129.2E40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0027.1N 129.6E45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0027.8N 129.6E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0028.5N 129.2E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0029.4N 129.0E40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0030.4N 129.3E35 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0031.4N 130.2E35 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0032.8N 131.6E30 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0034.4N 134.2E25 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0037.2N 139.1E990 mbMixed
Aug 29, 18:0041.4N 143.4E988 mbExtratropical
Aug 30, 00:0044.9N 147.0E984 mbExtratropical
Aug 30, 06:0046.9N 149.0E982 mbExtratropical
Aug 30, 12:0048.4N 151.0E984 mbExtratropical
Aug 30, 18:0049.0N 154.0E984 mbExtratropical
Aug 31, 00:0049.4N 158.5E990 mbExtratropical
Aug 31, 06:0050.4N 161.5E992 mbExtratropical
Aug 31, 12:0051.0N 164.0E994 mbExtratropical
Aug 31, 18:0051.4N 166.5E996 mbExtratropical
Sep 1, 00:0051.0N 169.0E1000 mbExtratropical
Sep 1, 06:0049.7N 171.7E1000 mbExtratropical
Sep 1, 12:0048.6N 173.7E1004 mbExtratropical
Sep 1, 18:0047.6N 175.6E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 2, 00:0046.0N 178.0E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 2, 06:0044.0N 180.5EExtratropical

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.