The 1964 season

Tropical Depression Giselle (1964)

Tropical Depression Giselle peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between February 22, 1964 and March 4, 1964, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Giselle, 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
South Indian
Dates
February 22, 1964 to March 4, 1964
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH181964

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
Feb 22, 18:009.0S 73.0ETropical storm
Feb 23, 00:009.5S 71.6ETropical storm
Feb 23, 06:0010.1S 70.3ETropical storm
Feb 23, 12:0010.6S 69.2ETropical storm
Feb 23, 18:0011.2S 68.0ETropical storm
Feb 24, 00:0011.7S 66.9ETropical storm
Feb 24, 06:0012.2S 65.7ETropical storm
Feb 24, 12:0012.8S 64.4ETropical storm
Feb 24, 18:0013.4S 63.0ETropical storm
Feb 25, 00:0014.1S 61.6ETropical storm
Feb 25, 06:0014.9S 60.2ETropical storm
Feb 25, 12:0015.8S 59.8ETropical storm
Feb 25, 18:0016.7S 59.8ETropical storm
Feb 26, 00:0017.4S 58.9ETropical storm
Feb 26, 06:0017.9S 58.1ETropical storm
Feb 26, 12:0018.4S 57.7ETropical storm
Feb 26, 18:0018.8S 57.3ETropical storm
Feb 27, 00:0019.1S 56.7ETropical storm
Feb 27, 06:0019.3S 56.3ETropical storm
Feb 27, 12:0019.5S 56.2ETropical storm
Feb 27, 18:0019.7S 56.2ETropical storm
Feb 28, 00:0019.9S 56.2ETropical storm
Feb 28, 06:0020.1S 56.0ETropical storm
Feb 28, 12:0020.3S 55.6ETropical storm
Feb 28, 18:0020.6S 55.2ETropical storm
Feb 29, 00:0021.0S 54.8ETropical storm
Feb 29, 06:0021.4S 54.4ETropical storm
Feb 29, 12:0021.7S 53.8ETropical storm
Feb 29, 18:0021.9S 53.1ETropical storm
Mar 1, 00:0022.0S 52.4ETropical storm
Mar 1, 06:0022.2S 51.7ETropical storm
Mar 1, 12:0022.4S 50.8ETropical storm
Mar 1, 18:0022.7S 49.6ETropical storm
Mar 2, 00:0023.0S 48.4ETropical storm
Mar 2, 06:0023.3S 47.1ETropical storm
Mar 2, 12:0023.6S 45.7ETropical storm
Mar 2, 18:0024.0S 44.3EMixed
Mar 3, 00:0024.4S 42.9EMixed
Mar 3, 06:0024.7S 41.7EMixed
Mar 3, 12:0025.0S 41.1EMixed
Mar 3, 18:0025.2S 40.6EMixed
Mar 4, 00:0025.4S 40.0EMixed
Mar 4, 06:0025.7S 39.4EMixed
Mar 4, 12:0028.0S 38.0EExtratropical
Mar 4, 18:0029.1S 37.8EExtratropical

Other South Indian 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.