The 1969 season

Typhoon Doris (1969)

Typhoon Doris reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between August 29, 1969 and September 3, 1969, with a lowest pressure of 975 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Doris. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
August 29, 1969 to September 3, 1969
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
975 mb (28.79 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.7
Identifier
WP101969

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 29, 00:0010.0N 126.5E1008 mbMixed
Aug 29, 06:0010.5N 125.3E1006 mbMixed
Aug 29, 12:0010.9N 124.1E1008 mbMixed
Aug 29, 18:0011.4N 123.0E1008 mbMixed
Aug 30, 00:0011.9N 121.8E1008 mbMixed
Aug 30, 06:0012.2N 120.7E1007 mbMixed
Aug 30, 12:0012.8N 119.5E1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0013.5N 118.4E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0014.2N 117.4E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0014.6N 116.6E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0015.3N 115.5E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0015.9N 114.3E45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0016.4N 113.1E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0016.5N 111.6E60 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0016.7N 110.3E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0017.0N 109.0E60 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0017.0N 107.7E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0017.1N 106.7E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0017.0N 106.0E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0016.5N 104.5E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0016.2N 103.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0017.0N 100.7E999 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0016.9N 99.6ETropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0016.9N 98.7ETropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1969

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.