The 1964 season

Typhoon Winnie (1964)

Typhoon Winnie reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between June 24, 1964 and July 4, 1964, with a lowest pressure of 968 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Winnie. 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
June 24, 1964 to July 4, 1964
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
968 mb (28.59 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
15.7
Identifier
WP031964

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
Jun 24, 18:008.6N 142.1E1008 mbMixed
Jun 25, 00:009.3N 140.8E1006 mbMixed
Jun 25, 06:0010.0N 139.6E1004 mbMixed
Jun 25, 12:0010.8N 138.5E1004 mbMixed
Jun 25, 18:0011.4N 137.5E1002 mbMixed
Jun 26, 00:0011.7N 136.6E25 kt1002 mbMixed
Jun 26, 06:0012.2N 135.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 12:0012.8N 134.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 18:0013.2N 133.8E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 00:0013.5N 132.9E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 06:0013.6N 132.3E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 12:0013.6N 131.4E55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 18:0014.2N 130.5E60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 00:0014.6N 129.5E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 06:0014.5N 128.6E75 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 12:0014.2N 127.8E80 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 18:0014.3N 126.5E80 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 00:0014.7N 125.1E85 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 06:0014.7N 123.7E85 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 12:0014.5N 122.3E90 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 18:0014.7N 120.8E70 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 00:0014.7N 119.7E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 06:0015.2N 118.4E80 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 12:0015.8N 117.3E90 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 18:0016.3N 116.3E95 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 00:0016.9N 115.3E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 06:0017.5N 114.1E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 12:0018.3N 112.8E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 18:0018.8N 111.4E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 00:0019.4N 110.3E95 kt968 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 06:0019.8N 109.5E85 kt968 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 12:0020.1N 109.0E75 kt968 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 18:0020.5N 108.0E60 kt968 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 00:0021.0N 107.0E50 kt976 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 06:0021.6N 105.9E35 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 12:0021.8N 104.8E25 kt990 mbMixed
Jul 3, 18:0022.6N 103.9E994 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 00:0023.0N 102.8E996 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 06:0023.3N 101.0E996 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 12:0024.0N 100.0E998 mbTropical 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.