The 1964 season

Typhoon Hope (1964)

Typhoon Hope reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between October 21, 1964 and October 30, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 975 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Hope, 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 21, 1964 to October 30, 1964
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure
975 mb (28.79 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 692 km (430 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.4
Identifier
WP321964

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 21, 00:007.2N 157.5ETropical storm
Oct 21, 06:008.1N 156.6ETropical storm
Oct 21, 12:009.0N 155.5ETropical storm
Oct 21, 18:009.6N 154.1ETropical storm
Oct 22, 00:0010.0N 152.1ETropical storm
Oct 22, 06:0010.0N 150.5ETropical storm
Oct 22, 12:0010.1N 148.6ETropical storm
Oct 22, 18:0010.3N 147.1ETropical storm
Oct 23, 00:0010.6N 145.4ETropical storm
Oct 23, 06:0011.1N 144.3ETropical storm
Oct 23, 12:0011.7N 143.1ETropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0013.7N 142.3E30 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0014.7N 141.1E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 06:0015.1N 140.0E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 12:0015.4N 139.2E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 18:0015.6N 138.3E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 00:0015.7N 137.4E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 06:0016.1N 136.7E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 12:0016.5N 135.9E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 18:0017.1N 135.5E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 00:0017.7N 135.2E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 06:0018.4N 135.1E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 12:0019.1N 135.1E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 18:0019.8N 135.3E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 00:0020.4N 135.8E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 06:0021.5N 136.6E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 12:0022.5N 137.2E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 18:0023.6N 137.9E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 00:0024.8N 138.6E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0026.5N 139.8E75 kt975 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 12:0028.2N 141.8E75 kt975 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 18:0029.5N 143.8E75 kt975 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 00:0031.0N 145.9E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 06:0032.7N 148.3E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 12:0035.1N 151.5E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 18:0037.3N 154.7E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 00:0037.5N 157.5E50 kt1000 mbMixed
Oct 30, 06:0038.0N 162.0E45 kt1002 mbMixed
Oct 30, 12:0038.2N 165.0E40 kt1004 mbMixed
Oct 30, 18:0038.0N 172.0E35 kt1006 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.