The 1964 season

Tropical Storm Georgia (1964)

Tropical Storm Georgia peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between October 17, 1964 and October 26, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Georgia, 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
October 17, 1964 to October 26, 1964
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.9
Identifier
WP311964

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 17, 00:0011.0N 143.0EDisturbance
Oct 17, 06:0011.2N 142.3EDisturbance
Oct 17, 12:0011.3N 141.4EDisturbance
Oct 17, 18:0011.5N 140.4EDisturbance
Oct 18, 00:0011.6N 139.6EDisturbance
Oct 18, 06:0011.8N 138.8EDisturbance
Oct 18, 12:0011.9N 137.9EDisturbance
Oct 18, 18:0011.7N 135.5E1005 mbMixed
Oct 19, 00:0011.7N 134.2E1006 mbMixed
Oct 19, 06:0011.8N 134.0E1004 mbMixed
Oct 19, 12:0012.2N 133.5E1004 mbMixed
Oct 19, 18:0012.8N 132.1E1004 mbMixed
Oct 20, 00:0012.8N 129.8E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Oct 20, 06:0013.0N 128.0E25 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 12:0013.3N 126.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 18:0013.9N 124.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 00:0014.6N 122.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 06:0016.2N 120.9E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 12:0016.3N 119.3E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 18:0016.5N 117.6E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 00:0017.3N 115.8E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 06:0017.7N 114.0E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 12:0017.8N 112.3E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 18:0017.8N 111.0E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 00:0017.8N 109.8E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 06:0017.8N 108.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 12:0017.8N 107.5E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0017.9N 106.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0017.7N 104.4E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 06:0016.8N 103.1E1002 mbMixed
Oct 24, 12:0015.4N 101.4E1008 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 18:0014.4N 98.8ETropical storm
Oct 25, 00:0014.4N 96.7ETropical storm
Oct 25, 06:0014.9N 94.6ETropical storm
Oct 25, 12:0015.9N 92.7ETropical storm
Oct 25, 18:0017.1N 91.0ETropical storm
Oct 26, 00:0018.5N 89.5ETropical 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.