The 1964 season

Hurricane Gladys (1964)

Hurricane Gladys reached Category 4 in the North Atlantic between September 13, 1964 and September 25, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 945 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Gladys, 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
North Atlantic
Dates
September 13, 1964 to September 25, 1964
Peak strength
Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
Lowest pressure
945 mb (27.91 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
30.3
Fastest the center moved
45 kt (52 mph)
Identifier
AL091964

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
Sep 13, 06:0014.7N 44.5W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0015.4N 46.0W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0016.2N 47.5W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0017.0N 49.0W60 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0017.9N 50.5W60 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0018.8N 52.0W65 kt992 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 18:0019.6N 53.4W65 kt994 mbHurricane
Sep 15, 00:0020.2N 54.5W65 kt994 mbHurricane
Sep 15, 06:0020.7N 55.4W60 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0021.2N 56.2W60 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0021.7N 57.1W60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0022.2N 58.1W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0022.7N 59.1W65 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 12:0023.0N 60.0W70 kt986 mbHurricane
Sep 16, 18:0023.3N 60.9W75 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 00:0023.7N 62.0W75 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 06:0024.2N 63.1W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Sep 17, 12:0024.5N 64.0W105 kt954 mbHurricane
Sep 17, 18:0025.0N 65.1W115 kt945 mbHurricane
Sep 18, 00:0025.4N 65.9W110 kt951 mbHurricane
Sep 18, 06:0025.8N 66.5W110 kt951 mbHurricane
Sep 18, 12:0026.1N 67.1W110 kt952 mbHurricane
Sep 18, 18:0026.4N 67.7W110 kt953 mbHurricane
Sep 19, 00:0026.7N 68.2W110 kt947 mbHurricane
Sep 19, 06:0027.0N 68.7W110 kt951 mbHurricane
Sep 19, 12:0027.3N 69.1W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 19, 18:0027.6N 69.5W100 kt962 mbHurricane
Sep 20, 00:0027.9N 69.6W100 kt962 mbHurricane
Sep 20, 06:0028.4N 69.7W95 kt965 mbHurricane
Sep 20, 12:0028.9N 69.7W85 kt967 mbHurricane
Sep 20, 18:0029.4N 69.6W85 kt964 mbHurricane
Sep 21, 00:0029.8N 69.5W80 kt964 mbHurricane
Sep 21, 06:0030.4N 69.5W75 kt969 mbHurricane
Sep 21, 12:0031.2N 69.7W65 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 21, 18:0032.3N 70.2W65 kt977 mbHurricane
Sep 22, 00:0033.1N 70.8W65 kt984 mbHurricane
Sep 22, 06:0033.7N 71.3W65 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 22, 12:0033.9N 71.8W65 kt984 mbHurricane
Sep 22, 18:0034.2N 72.2W65 kt982 mbHurricane
Sep 23, 00:0034.8N 72.4W70 kt979 mbHurricane
Sep 23, 06:0035.6N 72.2W75 kt977 mbHurricane
Sep 23, 12:0036.4N 71.8W75 kt982 mbHurricane
Sep 23, 18:0037.7N 70.7W80 kt974 mbHurricane
Sep 24, 00:0039.2N 69.0W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 24, 06:0040.9N 66.9W75 kt982 mbHurricane
Sep 24, 12:0042.8N 64.2W75 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 18:0044.7N 59.8W70 ktHurricane
Sep 25, 00:0047.5N 54.9W60 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic 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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.