The 1964 season

Tropical Storm Pamela (1964)

Tropical Storm Pamela peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between August 25, 1964 and August 26, 1964.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Pamela, 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 25, 1964 to August 26, 1964
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 2832 km (1760 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Identifier
WP191964

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 25, 00:0016.0N 172.0E20 ktTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0016.2N 171.2E40 ktTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0016.4N 170.3E50 ktTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0016.5N 169.4E45 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0016.7N 168.5E40 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0016.9N 167.5E25 ktTropical 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.