The 1964 season

Typhoon Tilda (1964)

Typhoon Tilda reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between September 12, 1964 and September 25, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 965 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Tilda, 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
September 12, 1964 to September 25, 1964
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
965 mb (28.50 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
21.6
Identifier
WP221964

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 12, 00:0016.7N 140.6E1006 mbMixed
Sep 12, 06:0017.1N 138.8E1004 mbMixed
Sep 12, 12:0017.5N 137.0E1004 mbMixed
Sep 12, 18:0017.8N 135.1E1004 mbMixed
Sep 13, 00:0018.0N 133.3E1002 mbMixed
Sep 13, 06:0018.2N 132.3E30 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 13, 12:0018.4N 129.9E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0019.4N 127.7E50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0020.0N 125.6E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0020.3N 123.8E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0020.7N 122.1E75 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0020.8N 120.6E80 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0021.0N 119.6E90 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0021.3N 118.2E85 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0021.3N 117.1E80 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0021.3N 116.5E75 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0021.2N 115.8E70 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0021.1N 115.3E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0021.1N 114.7E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0021.0N 114.4E65 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0020.6N 114.3E60 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0020.3N 114.2E55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0019.8N 114.2E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0019.6N 114.5E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0019.5N 114.9E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0019.4N 115.4E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0019.2N 115.9E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0019.1N 115.5E50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0019.3N 115.0E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0019.4N 114.6E60 kt982 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0019.5N 114.1E60 kt976 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0019.3N 113.6E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0018.8N 113.3E90 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0018.6N 112.8E100 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0018.4N 112.4E110 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0018.2N 112.0E110 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0017.9N 111.4E110 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0017.6N 110.6E110 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0017.4N 109.8E110 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0017.3N 109.1E100 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0017.1N 108.3E90 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0017.0N 107.3E80 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0017.0N 106.3E60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0017.2N 105.2E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0017.3N 104.9E40 kt996 mbMixed
Sep 23, 06:0017.5N 103.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0017.8N 102.6E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0017.2N 100.9E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0017.4N 100.1E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0017.7N 99.4ETropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0017.5N 98.9ETropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0017.1N 98.3ETropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0017.2N 97.7ETropical 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.