The 1965 season

Hurricane Anna (1965)

Hurricane Anna reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between August 21, 1965 and August 26, 1965.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Anna, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1965 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
North Atlantic
Dates
August 21, 1965 to August 26, 1965
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 295 km (183 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.8
Identifier
AL021965

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
Aug 21, 06:0032.4N 52.3W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 21, 12:0033.0N 52.3W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0033.6N 52.1W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0034.1N 52.1W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0034.6N 52.1W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0035.1N 52.2W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 22, 18:0035.6N 52.2W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 23, 00:0036.0N 52.1W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0036.4N 52.0W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0036.9N 52.0W65 ktHurricane
Aug 23, 18:0037.5N 52.0W75 ktHurricane
Aug 24, 00:0038.3N 51.8W85 ktHurricane
Aug 24, 06:0039.0N 51.3W90 ktHurricane
Aug 24, 12:0039.8N 50.3W90 ktHurricane
Aug 24, 18:0041.1N 48.3W90 ktHurricane
Aug 25, 00:0043.0N 45.3W85 ktHurricane
Aug 25, 06:0045.1N 42.2W80 ktHurricane
Aug 25, 12:0047.1N 38.1W75 ktHurricane
Aug 25, 18:0049.1N 33.4W65 ktHurricane
Aug 26, 00:0051.0N 27.9W55 ktExtratropical
Aug 26, 06:0053.0N 20.0W50 ktExtratropical
Aug 26, 12:0055.0N 14.5W45 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1965

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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.