The 1965 season

Tropical Storm Ava (1965)

Tropical Storm Ava peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between June 29, 1965 and July 5, 1965.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Ava, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
June 29, 1965 to July 5, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 693 km (431 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.8
Identifier
EP031965

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 29, 00:0015.1N 109.7W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 29, 06:0015.2N 110.8W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 29, 12:0015.4N 111.8W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 29, 18:0015.6N 112.8W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 30, 00:0015.8N 113.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 30, 06:0016.3N 114.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 30, 12:0016.8N 115.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 30, 18:0017.2N 116.4W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 1, 00:0017.6N 117.1W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 1, 06:0017.8N 118.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 1, 12:0017.9N 118.9W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 1, 18:0018.0N 119.9W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 2, 00:0018.0N 120.8W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 2, 06:0018.0N 121.7W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 2, 12:0017.9N 122.6W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 2, 18:0017.8N 123.4W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 3, 00:0017.7N 124.1W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 3, 06:0017.5N 125.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 3, 12:0017.3N 126.0W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 3, 18:0017.1N 127.0W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 4, 00:0017.0N 127.9W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 4, 06:0016.9N 128.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 4, 12:0016.7N 129.4W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 4, 18:0016.5N 130.1W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 5, 00:0016.3N 130.9W25 ktTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific 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.