The 1964 season

Typhoon Dot (1964)

Typhoon Dot reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between October 3, 1964 and October 19, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Dot. 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
October 3, 1964 to October 19, 1964
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
13.3
Identifier
WP281964

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
Oct 3, 18:007.0N 156.0EDisturbance
Oct 4, 00:007.0N 154.0EDisturbance
Oct 4, 06:007.0N 152.0EDisturbance
Oct 4, 12:007.0N 150.5EDisturbance
Oct 4, 18:007.0N 149.5EDisturbance
Oct 5, 00:007.0N 148.0EDisturbance
Oct 5, 06:007.0N 146.5EDisturbance
Oct 5, 12:007.0N 144.9EDisturbance
Oct 5, 18:007.0N 143.0EDisturbance
Oct 6, 00:007.2N 141.0EDisturbance
Oct 6, 06:008.3N 136.4E35 ktTropical storm
Oct 6, 12:008.8N 134.9E35 ktTropical storm
Oct 6, 18:009.5N 133.4E40 ktTropical storm
Oct 7, 00:0010.2N 132.0E40 ktTropical storm
Oct 7, 06:0010.9N 130.5E45 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 12:0011.6N 129.0E45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 18:0012.4N 127.6E45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 00:0013.1N 126.3E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 06:0013.8N 125.4E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 12:0014.5N 124.6E50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 18:0015.6N 123.8E55 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 00:0016.6N 123.0E65 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 06:0017.4N 122.1E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 12:0017.8N 121.2E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0017.7N 120.2E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0017.7N 119.3E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0017.6N 118.4E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0017.7N 117.8E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0017.9N 117.2E75 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0018.2N 116.7E80 kt987 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0018.6N 116.2E85 kt986 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0019.0N 115.8E90 kt986 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0019.4N 115.5E90 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0019.9N 115.3E90 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0020.5N 115.0E90 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0021.2N 114.8E90 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0021.8N 114.6E90 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0022.5N 114.5E90 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0023.3N 114.6E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0024.2N 114.8E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0025.3N 115.1E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0026.5N 116.2E1004 mbMixed
Oct 14, 06:0027.3N 117.2E1004 mbMixed
Oct 14, 12:0027.8N 118.5E1008 mbMixed
Oct 14, 18:0028.4N 120.8E1009 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 00:0028.5N 122.4E1012 mbMixed
Oct 15, 06:0029.1N 123.9E1009 mbExtratropical
Oct 15, 12:0029.0N 124.8E1010 mbExtratropical
Oct 15, 18:0028.9N 126.1E1010 mbExtratropical
Oct 16, 00:0029.1N 127.0E1010 mbExtratropical
Oct 16, 06:0029.6N 127.8E1006 mbExtratropical
Oct 16, 12:0030.3N 128.7E1006 mbExtratropical
Oct 16, 18:0030.5N 130.2E1006 mbExtratropical
Oct 17, 00:0031.0N 131.6E1006 mbExtratropical
Oct 17, 06:0031.7N 132.8E1004 mbExtratropical
Oct 17, 12:0032.0N 134.3E1007 mbExtratropical
Oct 17, 18:0032.2N 136.0E1005 mbExtratropical
Oct 18, 00:0032.5N 137.7E1008 mbExtratropical
Oct 18, 06:0033.0N 139.8E1007 mbExtratropical
Oct 18, 12:0033.3N 141.8E1006 mbExtratropical
Oct 18, 18:0033.4N 143.3E1006 mbExtratropical
Oct 19, 00:0033.6N 145.0E1008 mbExtratropical
Oct 19, 06:0034.3N 147.7E1012 mbExtratropical
Oct 19, 12:0035.4N 150.6E1016 mbExtratropical

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.