The 1964 season

Typhoon Violet (1964)

Typhoon Violet reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between September 12, 1964 and September 16, 1964, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Violet, 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 16, 1964
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.6
Identifier
WP231964

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, 18:0012.8N 118.1ETropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0012.6N 116.8ETropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0012.5N 115.5ETropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0012.5N 114.4ETropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0012.6N 113.5ETropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0012.9N 113.0E25 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0013.6N 111.8E35 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0014.4N 110.5E45 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0015.1N 109.4E65 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0015.7N 108.3E75 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0016.2N 107.2E55 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0016.5N 106.1E30 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0017.3N 105.7EDisturbance
Sep 16, 00:0017.6N 105.3EDisturbance
Sep 16, 06:0017.7N 104.6EDisturbance
Sep 16, 12:0017.8N 103.8EDisturbance

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.