The 1964 season

Typhoon Doris (1964)

Typhoon Doris reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between July 11, 1964 and July 17, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Doris. 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
July 11, 1964 to July 17, 1964
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 38 km (24 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.3
Identifier
WP071964

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 11, 00:009.8N 145.1E20 kt1008 mbMixed
Jul 11, 06:009.8N 143.6E30 kt1004 mbMixed
Jul 11, 12:0010.1N 142.3E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 18:0010.8N 140.8E45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0011.9N 139.4E50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0013.2N 137.9E55 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0014.2N 136.0E55 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0015.0N 134.1E55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:0015.9N 132.4E60 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 06:0017.0N 131.3E65 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 12:0018.3N 130.3E70 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 18:0019.2N 129.0E75 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:0020.0N 127.6E80 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0021.1N 126.6E75 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0021.9N 125.8E60 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0022.6N 125.2E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0023.4N 124.7E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0024.2N 124.4E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0025.1N 124.1E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0026.2N 124.9E998 mbMixed
Jul 16, 00:0027.5N 124.3E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0028.5N 124.2E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0029.6N 124.6E1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0030.6N 125.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0031.7N 125.7E1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0033.0N 127.0E1000 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.