The 1967 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1967, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1967 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Tropical depressions in this basin have the "W" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names.

Storms

41 tropical depressions formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 35 became tropical storms. 20 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 5 reached super typhoon strength.

Tropical Storm Ruby (Auring)

Typhoon Sally (Bebeng)

Tropical Storm Therese

Typhoon Violet (Karing)

Typhoon Violet, which formed on April 1, steadily weakened from her peak of 140 mph to hit northeastern Luzon as a 115 mph typhoon on the 8th. It dissipated in the South China Sea on the 11th without causing any significant damage.

Tropical Storm Wilda (Diding)

Typhoon Anita (Gening)

Typhoon Billie (Herming)

Typhoon Billie, having developed on July 2, reached her peak of 85 mph on the 5th. Its intensity fluctuated as it headed northward to Japan, and became extratropical on the 8th. Its extratropical remnant continued northeastward, and brought heavy rain to Honsh and Ky sh , killing 347 people.

Typhoon Clara (Ising)

A cold core low developed tropical characteristics and became Tropical Depression 8W on July 6. It tracked westward, becoming a tropical storm later that day and a typhoon on the 7th. After briefly weakening to a tropical storm, Clara re-attained typhoon status, and peaked at 115 mph on the 10th. Clara weakened to a 90 mph typhoon just before hitting Taiwan on the 11th, and dissipated over China the next day. Clara's heavy rains caused 69 fatalities (with 32 missing).

Tropical Depression Nine

Tropical Storm Dot

Tropical Depression Eleven

Typhoon Ellen

Tropical Storm Fran (Luding)

Tropical Storm Georgia (Mameng)

Tropical Storm Hope (Neneng)

Tropical Depression Sixteen

Tropical Depression Seventeen

Tropical Storm Iris

Tropical Storm Joan (Pepang)

Typhoon Kate

Typhoon Louise

Typhoon Marge (Rosing)

Tropical Depression Twenty-Three

Typhoon Nora (Sisang)

Super Typhoon Opal

Super Typhoon Opal was a powerful system that peaked in winds of 180mph, the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane.

Tropical Storm Patsy

Typhoon Ruth

Super Typhoon Sarah

On September 14, 1967, Tropical Storm Sarah from the 1967 Pacific hurricane season entered the Western Pacific basin. Immediately after the first advisory following Sarah's entrance into the West Pacific Ocean, it was upgraded to a minimal Typhoon. Typhoon Sarah continued to intensify and late on September 15, it was upgraded to a Category 4 typhoon. The next day, Sarah reached a peak of 150 mph winds and 933 millibars in pressure (this was the only pressure reading retrieved from Sarah); this made Sarah a Super typhoon. Sarah started a gradual weakening trend after wards, and late on September 21, Sarah became extratropical as a 80mph Category 1 typhoon.

On September 16, Sarah made landfall on Wake Island at peak intensity, causing widespread damage. This was the third tropical cyclone since the beginning of observations in 1935 to bring typhoon-force winds to Wake Island. An unnamed typhoon on October 19 in 1940 (Tomita, 1968) brought 120-knot winds and Olive in 1952 had lashed the island with 150-knot winds. Olive's attack on the island occurred on the 16th of September--exactly 15 years prior to that of Sarah.^[1]

Tropical Strorm Thelma

Tropical Storm Vera

Typhoon Wanda

Typhoon Amy

Tropical Storm Babe

Super Typhoon Carla (Trining)

Carla became an intense typhoon while located in the Philippine Sea on October 15.^[2] During its weakening stage, the typhoon led to extreme rainfall near its track. Baguio, Philippines recorded of rainfall in a 24 hour period spanning portions of October 17 and October 18. It was significantly wetter in China, where fell in a 48 hour period encompassing October 17 through October 19.^[3]

Typhoon Dinah (Uring)

Typhoon Dinah struck the southern island of Ky sh in Japan. 37 people were killed and 10 were missing.^[4]

Super Typhoon Emma (Welming)

Typhoon Freda (Yayang)

Super Typhoon Gilda (Ading)

Typhoon Harriet

Tropical Storm Ivy (Barang)

1967 storm names

See also

• 1967 Atlantic hurricane season
• 1967 Pacific hurricane season

References

1. ↑
2. ↑
3. ↑
4. ↑ Digital Typhoon: Disaster Information

External links

• Japan Meteorological Agency
• Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
• China Meteorological Agency
• National Weather Service Guam
• Hong Kong Observatory
• Macau Meteorological Geophysical Services
• Korea Meteorological Agency
• Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
• Taiwan Central Weather Bureau
• Digital Typhoon - Typhoon Images and Information
• Typhoon2000 Philippine typhoon website