The 1964 season

Typhoon Marie (1964)

Typhoon Marie reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between August 12, 1964 and August 20, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Marie. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
August 12, 1964 to August 20, 1964
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 321 km (199 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.1
Identifier
WP161964

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 12, 06:0017.6N 128.3E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0018.6N 127.9E1004 mbMixed
Aug 12, 18:0018.5N 127.4E1002 mbMixed
Aug 13, 00:0018.7N 126.7E1002 mbMixed
Aug 13, 06:0019.0N 126.9E1002 mbMixed
Aug 13, 12:0019.3N 127.3E1002 mbMixed
Aug 13, 18:0019.8N 127.5E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0020.2N 127.8E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0020.3N 129.1E30 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0020.9N 128.5E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0021.7N 128.5E30 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0022.3N 128.9E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0022.2N 129.9E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0021.7N 130.7E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0021.2N 131.7E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0021.0N 132.8E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0021.5N 134.0E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0022.7N 134.5E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0023.5N 134.3E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0023.8N 134.3E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0024.3N 134.2E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0025.0N 134.2E70 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0025.9N 133.5E70 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0026.7N 132.6E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0027.6N 131.3E50 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0028.3N 129.7E30 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0028.7N 128.4E30 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0027.3N 127.3E988 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0026.6N 126.7E986 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0025.9N 126.8E988 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0025.4N 127.6E985 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0024.9N 128.8E986 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0024.5N 129.5E986 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.