The 1964 season

Tropical Storm Nora (1964)

Tropical Storm Nora peaked at 55 kt in the Western Pacific between November 26, 1964 and December 2, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Nora, 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
November 26, 1964 to December 2, 1964
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.2
Identifier
WP381964

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
Nov 26, 18:0011.5N 120.1E1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 27, 00:0011.3N 121.3E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 27, 06:0011.7N 121.6E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Nov 27, 12:0012.6N 120.1E55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 27, 18:0012.8N 119.7E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 28, 00:0013.2N 119.3E40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Nov 28, 06:0014.1N 119.0E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 28, 12:0015.5N 118.5E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Nov 28, 18:0016.0N 118.0E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 29, 00:0015.2N 123.4E1006 mbTropical storm
Nov 29, 06:0015.9N 123.7E1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 29, 12:0016.5N 123.9E1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 29, 18:0017.1N 124.3E1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 30, 00:0017.4N 124.2E1008 mbMixed
Nov 30, 06:0017.5N 124.5E1006 mbTropical storm
Nov 30, 12:0017.5N 125.2E1006 mbTropical storm
Nov 30, 18:0017.5N 125.7E1006 mbTropical storm
Dec 1, 00:0017.5N 126.5E1008 mbTropical storm
Dec 1, 06:0017.4N 127.5E1007 mbTropical storm
Dec 1, 12:0017.0N 128.2E1008 mbTropical storm
Dec 1, 18:0016.6N 128.5E1008 mbTropical storm
Dec 2, 00:0016.3N 128.7E1010 mbTropical storm
Dec 2, 06:0016.0N 129.0E1006 mbTropical storm
Dec 2, 12:0015.0N 129.9E1010 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.