The 1964 season

Typhoon Alice (1964)

Typhoon Alice reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between June 26, 1964 and June 29, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Alice, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1964 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 26, 1964 to June 29, 1964
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1101 km (684 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.2
Identifier
WP041964

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 26, 00:0012.4N 148.5EDisturbance
Jun 26, 06:0012.4N 147.3ETropical storm
Jun 26, 12:0012.5N 146.0ETropical storm
Jun 26, 18:0012.6N 144.9E30 ktTropical storm
Jun 27, 00:0012.8N 144.2E50 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 06:0013.1N 143.3E50 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 12:0013.4N 142.4E65 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 18:0013.9N 141.3E50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 00:0015.0N 140.1E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 06:0015.6N 139.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 12:0016.1N 137.8E1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 18:0016.2N 136.8E1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 00:0016.2N 135.8E1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 06:0015.8N 135.0E1004 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1964

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.