The 1962 season

Tropical Storm Marge (1962)

Tropical Storm Marge peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between July 28, 1962 and July 29, 1962, with a lowest pressure of 1002 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Marge, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1962 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
July 28, 1962 to July 29, 1962
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1002 mb (29.59 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1677 km (1042 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Identifier
WP091962

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
Jul 28, 00:0012.8N 149.2E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0012.8N 148.9E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0012.8N 148.7E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0012.9N 148.4E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0013.0N 148.2E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0013.1N 147.9E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0015.0N 146.4E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0015.4N 145.7E1004 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1962

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.