The 1967 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1967, but most
tropical cyclones
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Dependi ...
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
The 1967 Pacific hurricane season started on June 1 and ended on November 30, 1967. The season was of little note except for Hurricanes Katrina and Olivia. Katrina made landfall on the Baja Peninsula, killing at least 60 and made 2,500 homeless. O ...
. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the
Joint Typhoon Warning Center
The Joint typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) is a joint United States Navy – United States Air Force command in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The JTWC is responsible for the issuing of tropical cyclone warnings in the North-West Pacific Ocean, South P ...
. 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
or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names.
In 1967, the number of storms that the
Japan Meteorological Agency
The , abbreviated JMA, is an agency of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. It is charged with gathering and providing results for the public in Japan that are obtained from data based on daily scientific observation an ...
considered "typhoons" was the record number (39).
Systems
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During the 1967 Pacific typhoon season, 40 tropical depressions
formed, of which 35 became tropical storms. Twenty tropical storms attained
typhoon
A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere. This region is referred to as the Northwestern Pacific Basin, and is the most active tropical cyclone basin on Earth, accounting for a ...
intensity, and five of the typhoons reached super typhoon intensity.
Tropical Storm Ruby (Auring)
Typhoon Sally (Bebeng)
Severe Tropical Storm Therese
Typhoon Violet (Karing)
Typhoon Violet, which formed on April 1, steadily weakened from its peak of 140 mph to directly impact northeastern
Luzon
Luzon (; ) is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines. Located in the northern portion of the Philippines archipelago, it is the economic and political center of the nation, being home to the country's capital city, Manila, as ...
as a 115 mph typhoon on the 8th. It dissipated in the South China Sea on April 12 without causing any significant damage.
Tropical Storm Wilda (Diding)
Typhoon Anita (Gening)
Anita caused
a plane crash in Hong Kong.
Typhoon Billie (Herming)
Typhoon Billie, having developed on July 2, reached its peak of 85 mph on July 5. Billie's intensity fluctuated as it headed northward to Japan, and it became extratropical on the 8th; however, Billie's extratropical remnant continued northeastward, and it brought heavy rain to
Honshū and
Kyūshū, 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 July 7. After briefly weakening to a tropical storm, Clara re-attained typhoon status, and it peaked in intensity on July 10, reaching winds of 115 mph. Clara weakened to a 90 mph typhoon just before hitting
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
on the 11th, and it dissipated over China the next day. Clara's heavy rains caused 69 fatalities and a further 32 people to be reported as missing.
Typhoon Dot
Typhoon Ellen
Severe Tropical Storm Fran (Mameng)
Severe Tropical Storm Georgia (Luding)
Severe Tropical Storm Hope
Tropical Depression Neneng
Tropical Depression 16W
Tropical Storm 17W
Tropical Storm Iris (Oniang)
Severe Tropical Storm Louise
Severe Tropical Storm Joan
Typhoon Kate (Pepang)
Typhoon Marge (Rosing)
Tropical Depression 23W
Typhoon Nora (Sisang)
Super Typhoon Opal
Super Typhoon Opal was a powerful system that peaked in winds of 180
miles per hour (mph), the equivalent of a
Category 5 hurricane.
Tropical Storm Patsy
Typhoon Ruth
Tropical Storm Thelma
Severe Tropical Storm Vera
Super Typhoon Sarah
On September 14, Tropical Storm Sarah, which formed
across the International Date Line, entered the Western
Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...
. Immediately after the first advisory following Sarah's entrance into the West Pacific, it was upgraded to a minimal
typhoon
A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere. This region is referred to as the Northwestern Pacific Basin, and is the most active tropical cyclone basin on Earth, accounting for a ...
. Typhoon Sarah continued to intensify, and late on September 15, it was upgraded to a
Category 4 typhoon. The next day, Sarah reached its peak intensity, attaining 150 mph winds and a 932
millibar (mbar) pressure reading (this was the only pressure measurement retrieved from the typhoon), making the system a
super typhoon. Sarah began gradually weakening afterwards, and late on September 21, it became
extratropical
Extratropical cyclones, sometimes called mid-latitude cyclones or wave cyclones, are low-pressure areas which, along with the anticyclones of high-pressure areas, drive the weather over much of the Earth. Extratropical cyclones are capable of p ...
; it was still an 80 mph Category 1 typhoon at the time.
On September 16, Sarah made landfall on
Wake Island
Wake Island ( mh, Ānen Kio, translation=island of the kio flower; also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean in the northeastern area of the Micronesia subregion, east of Guam, west of Honolulu, southeast of T ...
at peak intensity, causing widespread damage. This typhoon was the third tropical cyclone since the beginning of observations in 1935 to bring typhoon-force winds to Wake Island, following an unnamed typhoon which struck on October 19, 1940 (Tomita, 1968), which brought 120 knot winds to the island, and
Typhoon Olive in
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, which lashed the island with 150 knot winds. Coincidentally, Olive's attack on the island occurred on September 16, exactly 15 years prior to Sarah's direct hit.
Typhoon Wanda
JMA Tropical Storm Twenty-nine
Typhoon Amy
JMA Tropical Storm Thirty-one
Tropical Depression 34W
Severe Tropical Storm Babe
Super Typhoon Carla (Trining)
Carla became an intense typhoon while located in the
Philippine Sea on October 15.
During its weakening stage, the typhoon dumped extreme rainfall around its
circulation. Baguio, Philippines recorded of rainfall in a 24‑hour period between October 17 and October 18; however, Carla's precipitation was significantly more extreme in Taiwan, where fell in a 48‑hour period between October 17 and October 19.
The worst typhoon to hit the country during the year, it killed 250 people and leaving 30 others missing.
Typhoon Dinah (Uring)
Typhoon Dinah struck the southern island of Kyūshū in Japan, killing thirty-seven people and resulting in ten others being reported as missing.
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Super Typhoon Emma (Welming)
Typhoon Emma was the second super Typhoon to hit the Philippines just 2 weeks after Typhoon Carla. Typhoon Emma left 300 people dead and 60 others missing.
Typhoon Freda (Yayang)
Super Typhoon Gilda (Ading)
Typhoon Harriet
Severe Tropical Storm Ivy (Barang)
Storm names
International
Philippines
The uses its own naming scheme for tropical cyclones in their area of responsibility. PAGASA assigns names to tropical depressions that form within their area of responsibility and any tropical cyclone that might move into their area of responsibility. Should the list of names for a given year prove to be insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list, the first 6 of which are published each year before the season starts. The names not retired from this list will be used again in the 1971 season. This is the same list used for the 1963 season. The names Uring, Welming, Yayang, Ading and Barang used the first time (and only, in the case of Welming). PAGASA uses its own naming scheme that starts in the Filipino alphabet
The modern Filipino alphabet ( fil, makabagong alpabetong Filipino), otherwise known as the Filipino alphabet ( fil, alpabetong Filipino), is the alphabet of the Filipino language, the official national language and one of the two official langu ...
, with names of Filipino female names ending with "ng" (A, B, K, D, etc.). Names that were not assigned/going to use are marked in .
Retirement
Due to an extreme death toll caused by Typhoon Emma (Welming) in the Philippines, PAGASA later retired the name ''Welming'' and was replaced by ''Warling'' for the 1971 season.
See also
* 1967 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1967 Atlantic hurricane season was the first Atlantic hurricane season to be part of the modern-day satellite era. With 13 named storms, it was an above average season in terms of named storms, slightly above average in terms of hurrican ...
* 1967 Pacific hurricane season
The 1967 Pacific hurricane season started on June 1 and ended on November 30, 1967. The season was of little note except for Hurricanes Katrina and Olivia. Katrina made landfall on the Baja Peninsula, killing at least 60 and made 2,500 homeless. O ...
* List of wettest tropical cyclones
This is a list of the wettest tropical cyclones, listing all tropical cyclones known to have dropped at least of precipitation on a single location. Data is most complete for Australia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, Yap, Chu ...
References
External links
Japan Meteorological Agency
Joint Typhoon Warning Center
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China Meteorological Agency
National Weather Service Guam
Macau Meteorological Geophysical Services
Korea Meteorological Agency
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
Digital Typhoon - Typhoon Images and Information
Typhoon2000 Philippine typhoon website
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