The 1964 season

Super Typhoon Sally (1964)

Super Typhoon Sally reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between September 3, 1964 and September 11, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 895 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Super Typhoon Sally. 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
September 3, 1964 to September 11, 1964
Peak strength
Category 5, 170 kt (196 mph)
Lowest pressure
895 mb (26.43 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
42.9
Fastest the center moved
21 kt (24 mph)
Identifier
WP211964

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
Sep 3, 00:009.2N 159.3E25 kt1007 mbMixed
Sep 3, 06:009.3N 158.0E30 kt1006 mbMixed
Sep 3, 12:009.5N 156.7E35 kt1006 mbMixed
Sep 3, 18:009.7N 155.4E45 kt1004 mbMixed
Sep 4, 00:0010.0N 154.0E55 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0010.3N 152.5E65 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0010.7N 151.2E65 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0011.1N 149.6E70 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0012.0N 148.0E75 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 06:0012.8N 146.3E85 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0013.4N 144.3E90 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0014.0N 142.2E100 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0014.4N 140.3E115 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0014.8N 138.4E130 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0015.0N 136.7E140 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0015.6N 134.9E155 kt950 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0016.2N 133.2E165 kt900 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 06:0016.8N 131.3E170 kt900 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 12:0017.1N 129.6E165 kt900 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0017.4N 127.9E160 kt900 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 00:0017.9N 126.4E160 kt895 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0018.0N 125.1E160 kt895 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0018.3N 123.7E160 kt895 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 18:0018.7N 122.6E150 kt895 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 00:0019.0N 121.4E140 kt895 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 06:0019.4N 120.3E130 kt950 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0019.9N 118.7E130 kt955 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0020.4N 117.6E115 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0020.8N 116.7E100 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0021.6N 115.6E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0022.5N 114.6E85 kt982 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0023.3N 113.1E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0025.0N 111.0E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0026.2N 109.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0028.0N 107.0E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0025.6N 109.4EDisturbance

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.