The 1964 season

Super Typhoon Ida (1964)

Super Typhoon Ida reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between August 1, 1964 and August 12, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 925 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Ida, 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
August 1, 1964 to August 12, 1964
Peak strength
Category 4, 135 kt (155 mph)
Lowest pressure
925 mb (27.32 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
22.8
Identifier
WP121964

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
Aug 1, 12:006.5N 150.0EDisturbance
Aug 1, 18:007.3N 149.0EDisturbance
Aug 2, 00:007.8N 148.4E1004 mbMixed
Aug 2, 06:008.0N 147.7E25 kt1002 mbMixed
Aug 2, 12:008.9N 146.6E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:009.0N 145.5E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:008.9N 144.3E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 06:009.4N 142.9E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 12:0010.3N 141.7E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 18:0010.9N 140.2E50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 00:0011.9N 138.6E60 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 06:0013.1N 136.9E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 12:0013.9N 135.2E75 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 18:0014.3N 133.5E85 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 00:0014.8N 131.9E95 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 06:0015.3N 130.4E110 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 12:0015.9N 128.9E120 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 18:0015.9N 127.5E125 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 00:0016.2N 126.3E130 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 06:0016.6N 125.1E135 kt925 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 12:0017.1N 123.8E135 kt935 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 18:0017.6N 122.4E135 kt945 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 00:0017.9N 121.0E80 kt955 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 06:0018.3N 119.9E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 12:0018.5N 118.9E100 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 18:0018.9N 117.7E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 00:0019.6N 116.7E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 06:0020.4N 115.6E100 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 12:0021.3N 114.5E95 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 18:0022.4N 113.5E90 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 00:0023.2N 112.6E40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 06:0023.5N 111.0E25 kt990 mbMixed
Aug 9, 12:0024.4N 109.0E992 mbMixed
Aug 9, 18:0024.6N 108.0E994 mbMixed
Aug 10, 00:0024.8N 107.1E994 mbMixed
Aug 10, 06:0024.9N 106.3E992 mbMixed
Aug 10, 12:0025.0N 105.7E992 mbMixed
Aug 10, 18:0025.4N 105.4E992 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 00:0025.5N 105.0E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 06:0026.2N 104.5E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 12:0027.0N 104.2E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 18:0028.0N 104.5E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 00:0029.0N 105.0E998 mbTropical storm

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.