The 1964 season

Tropical Storm Brenda (1964)

Tropical Storm Brenda peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between August 8, 1964 and August 10, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 1006 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Brenda, 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
North Atlantic
Dates
August 8, 1964 to August 10, 1964
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1006 mb (29.71 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.7
Identifier
AL041964

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 8, 06:0033.0N 67.0W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 8, 12:0032.4N 65.2W45 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 13:00 landfall32.3N 64.8W45 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 18:0031.9N 63.7W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 9, 00:0031.4N 62.1W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 9, 06:0031.5N 61.2W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0031.9N 60.6W45 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 18:0032.8N 60.1W45 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 00:0033.7N 59.2W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 10, 06:0034.5N 58.0W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 10, 12:0035.2N 56.5W35 kt1010 mbTropical storm

Other North Atlantic 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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.