The 1963 season

Typhoon Faye (1963)

Typhoon Faye reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between August 28, 1963 and September 11, 1963, with a lowest pressure of 960 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Faye, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1963 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
August 28, 1963 to September 11, 1963
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
960 mb (28.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
19.8
Identifier
WP131963

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
Aug 28, 00:009.1N 157.1E1006 mbMixed
Aug 28, 06:009.0N 156.0E1004 mbMixed
Aug 28, 12:009.0N 155.0E1006 mbMixed
Aug 28, 18:009.0N 153.5E1006 mbMixed
Aug 29, 00:009.2N 152.0E1006 mbMixed
Aug 29, 06:009.5N 150.8E1002 mbMixed
Aug 29, 12:0010.0N 149.4E1004 mbMixed
Aug 29, 18:0010.4N 148.0E1004 mbMixed
Aug 30, 00:0011.0N 146.5E1002 mbMixed
Aug 30, 06:0011.2N 145.1E1002 mbMixed
Aug 30, 12:0011.5N 143.6E1002 mbMixed
Aug 30, 18:0011.7N 142.4E1002 mbMixed
Aug 31, 00:0011.8N 141.2E1002 mbMixed
Aug 31, 06:0012.3N 140.7E1002 mbMixed
Aug 31, 12:0012.5N 140.2E1000 mbMixed
Aug 31, 18:0012.8N 139.7E1000 mbMixed
Sep 1, 00:0012.9N 139.0E998 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0013.4N 138.2E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0013.9N 137.0E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0014.3N 135.7E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0014.7N 134.5E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0015.1N 133.4E55 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0015.3N 132.4E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0015.7N 131.7E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0016.2N 130.9E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0016.9N 130.2E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0017.6N 129.2E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0018.2N 127.9E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0018.8N 126.5E85 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0019.2N 125.2E95 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0019.8N 123.6E100 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0019.9N 122.1E100 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0020.0N 120.9E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 06:0020.2N 119.8E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0020.2N 118.6E105 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0020.1N 117.4E105 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0020.1N 116.3E110 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0020.2N 115.2E110 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0020.4N 114.1E105 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0020.5N 113.2E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0020.5N 112.2E95 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 06:0020.3N 111.3E85 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 12:0020.2N 110.5E75 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0020.0N 109.8E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 00:0019.7N 109.3E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0019.5N 108.8E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0019.3N 108.2E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 18:0019.8N 106.0E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 00:0020.0N 104.0E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 06:0020.5N 102.0E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0019.6N 105.0E992 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0019.7N 104.5E994 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0020.0N 104.0E994 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0020.0N 103.6E996 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0020.0N 103.2E998 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0020.0N 103.0E998 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0020.0N 102.8E1000 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1963

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.