The 1964 season

Hurricane Odessa (1964)

Hurricane Odessa reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between July 15, 1964 and July 19, 1964.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Odessa, 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.

Open the live map with storms, cones and warnings

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 15, 1964 to July 19, 1964
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 877 km (545 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.7
Identifier
EP021964

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
Jul 15, 00:0015.1N 112.0W75 ktHurricane
Jul 15, 06:0015.2N 112.8W75 ktHurricane
Jul 15, 12:0015.3N 113.6W75 ktHurricane
Jul 15, 18:0015.6N 114.5W75 ktHurricane
Jul 16, 00:0015.9N 115.3W75 ktHurricane
Jul 16, 06:0016.0N 116.3W75 ktHurricane
Jul 16, 12:0016.2N 117.4W75 ktHurricane
Jul 16, 18:0016.5N 118.5W75 ktHurricane
Jul 17, 00:0016.8N 119.7W75 ktHurricane
Jul 17, 06:0017.1N 121.0W75 ktHurricane
Jul 17, 12:0017.4N 122.2W75 ktHurricane
Jul 17, 18:0017.9N 123.4W75 ktHurricane
Jul 18, 00:0018.6N 124.6W75 ktHurricane
Jul 18, 06:0019.3N 125.5W75 ktHurricane
Jul 18, 12:0020.0N 126.4W75 ktHurricane
Jul 18, 18:0020.5N 127.5W75 ktHurricane
Jul 19, 00:0020.8N 128.7W75 ktHurricane
Jul 19, 06:0020.9N 129.8W75 ktHurricane
Jul 19, 12:0020.7N 131.0W75 ktHurricane

Other Eastern 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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.