The 1964 season

Tropical Storm Anita (1964)

Tropical Storm Anita peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between September 23, 1964 and September 28, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Anita. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
September 23, 1964 to September 28, 1964
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.4
Identifier
WP251964

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
Sep 23, 06:0016.5N 120.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0015.9N 119.1E1004 mbMixed
Sep 23, 18:0015.2N 118.4E1004 mbMixed
Sep 24, 00:0014.5N 117.7E1004 mbMixed
Sep 24, 06:0013.9N 117.0E1002 mbMixed
Sep 24, 12:0013.1N 116.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0012.9N 116.3E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0012.8N 115.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0012.8N 114.2E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0013.2N 113.1E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0013.6N 112.4E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0014.1N 111.8E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 06:0014.6N 111.2E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 12:0015.2N 110.5E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0016.0N 109.6E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0016.1N 108.0E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0016.2N 106.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0016.0N 105.8E20 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 27, 18:0016.9N 106.3E1002 mbMixed
Sep 28, 00:0017.0N 105.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0017.0N 104.5E1006 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.