Cyclone Hazel (1964)

Basin

South Indian

Dates

March 6, 1964 to March 17, 1964

Peak strength

Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)

Lowest pressure

980 mb (28.94 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 717 km (446 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

1.6

Identifier

SH231964

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.

• Tropical Depression AmandaSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression AmandaSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression AmandaSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression BettySouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression BessieSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression950 mb
• Tropical Depression ChristineSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression DanielleSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression DoraSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression25 kt · 974 mb
• Tropical Depression EileenSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression FrancesSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression GiselleSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm EvaSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Storm40 kt · 990 mb
• Tropical Depression HarrietSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression KatieSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression960 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression IngridSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression NormaSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression15 kt
• Tropical Depression JoseSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression KarenSouth Indian · 1964Tropical Depression

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.

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.