The 1964 season

Tropical Storm Grace (1964)

Tropical Storm Grace peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between July 25, 1964 and August 4, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 998 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Grace, 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 25, 1964 to August 4, 1964
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
998 mb (29.47 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 35 km (22 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.3
Identifier
WP101964

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 25, 18:0017.0N 142.0E1006 mbMixed
Jul 26, 00:0018.4N 142.3E1006 mbMixed
Jul 26, 06:0019.5N 141.5E1004 mbMixed
Jul 26, 12:0021.7N 138.2E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Jul 26, 18:0021.4N 137.3E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Jul 27, 00:0021.1N 136.5E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0020.7N 135.7E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0020.5N 134.6E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0020.8N 133.3E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0021.6N 132.3E50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0022.3N 131.2E50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0021.9N 130.6E50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0021.6N 130.8E50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0021.4N 131.0E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0021.2N 131.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0021.4N 131.5E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0021.7N 131.8E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0022.2N 131.9E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0022.4N 130.6E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0021.7N 129.5E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 18:0021.0N 129.0E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 00:0020.2N 128.8E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 06:0019.6N 129.1E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 12:0019.5N 129.6E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 18:0019.9N 129.9E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0020.3N 130.3E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0020.7N 130.5E15 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0021.2N 130.7E15 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0021.9N 130.9E15 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0022.9N 131.1E15 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0023.1N 131.1E15 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 12:0025.4N 131.1E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0026.5N 131.0E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:0027.6N 131.0E45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 06:0028.5N 130.7E45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 12:0029.4N 130.1E40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 18:0030.2N 129.5E25 kt1005 mbMixed
Aug 4, 00:0030.9N 129.7E1008 mbMixed
Aug 4, 06:0031.6N 129.6E1009 mbMixed
Aug 4, 12:0032.2N 129.3E1009 mbMixed
Aug 4, 18:0032.7N 129.3E1008 mbMixed

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.