The 1978 season

Tropical Storm Rose (1978)

Tropical Storm Rose peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between June 21, 1978 and June 25, 1978, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Rose, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1978 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 21, 1978 to June 25, 1978
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Identifier
WP041978

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
Jun 21, 00:0016.6N 130.4E20 ktTropical depression
Jun 21, 06:0016.9N 129.7E20 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jun 21, 12:0017.3N 129.0E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 21, 18:0018.0N 128.4E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 22, 00:0018.7N 127.8E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 22, 06:0018.9N 127.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 22, 12:0019.0N 126.4E30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 22, 18:0018.9N 125.6E30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Jun 23, 00:0018.8N 124.8E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 06:0019.2N 124.0E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 12:0019.8N 123.4E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 18:0020.6N 122.9E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 00:0021.4N 122.5E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 06:0022.3N 122.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 12:0023.2N 121.5E30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Jun 24, 18:0024.3N 121.1E20 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 25, 00:0025.1N 118.8E1002 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1978

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.