The 1964 season

Typhoon Elsie (1964)

Typhoon Elsie reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between July 13, 1964 and July 19, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Elsie, 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
July 13, 1964 to July 19, 1964
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.6
Identifier
WP081964

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 13, 12:0016.7N 143.7ETropical storm
Jul 13, 18:0015.7N 143.0E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:0015.3N 142.1E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0014.8N 141.3E30 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0014.1N 140.5E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0013.5N 139.3E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0013.4N 138.1E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0013.5N 136.9E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0013.6N 135.4E45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0013.3N 133.7E50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0013.0N 132.0E55 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0013.5N 130.3E60 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0014.0N 128.5E60 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0014.1N 126.8E65 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0014.2N 125.5E85 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0014.8N 124.3E100 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0015.2N 123.2E100 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0015.2N 121.8E75 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0015.3N 120.4E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0015.7N 119.0E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0016.5N 118.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0018.2N 117.8E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0019.0N 117.0E1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 06:0019.1N 116.0E1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 12:0019.0N 115.0E1005 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.