The 1964 season

Super Typhoon Wilda (1964)

Super Typhoon Wilda reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between September 16, 1964 and September 27, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 895 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Super Typhoon Wilda. 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 16, 1964 to September 27, 1964
Peak strength
Category 5, 150 kt (173 mph)
Lowest pressure
895 mb (26.43 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
31.5
Fastest the center moved
57 kt (66 mph)
Identifier
WP241964

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 16, 18:0011.7N 149.3E1008 mbMixed
Sep 17, 00:0012.6N 148.5E1010 mbMixed
Sep 17, 06:0013.3N 147.8E1008 mbMixed
Sep 17, 12:0014.0N 147.1E1010 mbMixed
Sep 17, 18:0014.9N 146.6E1008 mbMixed
Sep 18, 00:0015.5N 145.9E1008 mbMixed
Sep 18, 06:0016.1N 145.2E1006 mbMixed
Sep 18, 12:0016.7N 144.6E1006 mbMixed
Sep 18, 18:0017.2N 144.2E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0017.7N 144.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0018.5N 143.6E50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0018.8N 143.2E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0019.2N 142.7E70 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0019.5N 142.0E80 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0019.7N 141.1E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0019.9N 140.1E115 kt940 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0020.1N 139.4E130 kt920 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0020.7N 138.5E145 kt900 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0021.3N 137.7E150 kt895 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0021.8N 136.9E150 kt895 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0022.5N 135.9E140 kt895 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0023.3N 135.1E130 kt920 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0024.1N 134.2E130 kt920 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0024.9N 133.5E130 kt920 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0025.5N 132.4E120 kt920 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0026.0N 131.7E115 kt930 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0026.7N 131.1E110 kt930 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0027.5N 130.7E110 kt930 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0028.4N 130.3E105 kt930 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0029.4N 130.1E100 kt930 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0030.6N 130.4E100 kt940 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0032.0N 131.4E95 kt950 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0033.9N 133.5E85 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0036.3N 136.2E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0039.8N 141.0E45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0043.0N 147.0E40 kt984 mbMixed
Sep 25, 18:0044.5N 152.0E35 kt984 mbMixed
Sep 26, 00:0046.5N 157.5E45 kt978 mbMixed
Sep 26, 06:0047.5N 165.0E65 kt968 mbMixed
Sep 26, 12:0049.2N 171.0E70 kt966 mbMixed
Sep 26, 18:0051.5N 177.0E45 kt970 mbMixed
Sep 27, 00:0052.0N 182.0EExtratropical

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.