Tropical Storm Pamela (1970)

Tropical Storm Pamela peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between June 26, 1970 and July 1, 1970, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Pamela, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1970 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: June 26, 1970 to July 1, 1970
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure: 980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 1.1
Identifier: WP031970

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)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Jun 26, 00:00	6.8N 141.5E			Disturbance
Jun 26, 06:00	6.8N 140.0E			Disturbance
Jun 26, 12:00	6.8N 138.5E			Disturbance
Jun 26, 18:00	6.7N 137.0E			Disturbance
Jun 27, 00:00	6.6N 135.5E			Disturbance
Jun 27, 06:00	6.4N 134.4E			Disturbance
Jun 27, 12:00	6.2N 133.2E			Disturbance
Jun 27, 18:00	6.0N 131.8E			Disturbance
Jun 28, 00:00	6.0N 130.4E		1008 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 28, 06:00	6.1N 129.6E		1006 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 28, 12:00	6.4N 128.9E		1004 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 28, 18:00	6.6N 128.4E		1002 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 29, 00:00	7.1N 128.0E		990 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 29, 06:00	7.7N 127.7E	50 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 29, 12:00	8.4N 127.6E	50 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 29, 18:00	9.2N 127.0E	50 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 30, 00:00	9.9N 125.9E	45 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 30, 06:00	10.3N 125.1E	40 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 30, 12:00	10.7N 124.4E	25 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 30, 18:00	11.2N 123.3E		1002 mb	Mixed
Jul 1, 00:00	11.5N 122.5E		1004 mb	Mixed
Jul 1, 06:00	11.8N 121.7E		1002 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 1, 12:00	12.3N 120.7E		1004 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 1, 18:00	12.6N 119.9E		1004 mb	Tropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1970

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.