The 1964 season

Tropical Depression Katie (1964)

Tropical Depression Katie peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between March 24, 1964 and April 1, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 960 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Katie, 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
South Indian
Dates
March 24, 1964 to April 1, 1964
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
960 mb (28.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH281964

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
Mar 24, 00:0012.6S 128.8ETropical storm
Mar 24, 06:0012.6S 127.9ETropical storm
Mar 24, 12:0012.6S 127.2ETropical storm
Mar 24, 18:0012.6S 126.6ETropical storm
Mar 25, 00:0012.6S 125.8ETropical storm
Mar 25, 06:0012.9S 123.9ETropical storm
Mar 25, 12:0013.4S 121.9ETropical storm
Mar 25, 18:0014.2S 120.1ETropical storm
Mar 26, 00:0014.8S 118.9ETropical storm
Mar 26, 06:0015.0S 118.2ETropical storm
Mar 26, 12:0015.4S 117.5ETropical storm
Mar 26, 18:0015.8S 116.6ETropical storm
Mar 27, 00:0016.2S 115.9ETropical storm
Mar 27, 06:0016.4S 115.3ETropical storm
Mar 27, 12:0016.8S 114.8ETropical storm
Mar 27, 18:0017.3S 114.2ETropical storm
Mar 28, 00:0017.7S 114.0ETropical storm
Mar 28, 06:0017.9S 113.9ETropical storm
Mar 28, 12:0018.1S 113.9ETropical storm
Mar 28, 18:0018.2S 113.8ETropical storm
Mar 29, 00:0018.5S 113.8ETropical storm
Mar 29, 06:0019.6S 113.9ETropical storm
Mar 29, 12:0020.8S 113.9E960 mbTropical storm
Mar 29, 18:0021.8S 113.7ETropical storm
Mar 30, 00:0022.8S 113.4ETropical storm
Mar 30, 06:0023.6S 113.0ETropical storm
Mar 30, 12:0024.6S 112.6ETropical storm
Mar 30, 18:0025.7S 112.2ETropical storm
Mar 31, 00:0026.9S 112.1ETropical storm
Mar 31, 06:0027.8S 112.6ETropical storm
Mar 31, 12:0028.6S 113.4ETropical storm
Mar 31, 18:0029.2S 114.2ETropical storm
Apr 1, 00:0029.9S 115.1ETropical storm
Apr 1, 06:0030.9S 116.2ETropical storm
Apr 1, 12:0031.9S 117.6ETropical storm
Apr 1, 18:0032.9S 119.3ENot reported

Other South Indian 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.