Typhoon Babe (1965)

Typhoon Babe reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between May 30, 1965 and June 8, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Babe, 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: Western Pacific
Dates: May 30, 1965 to June 8, 1965
Peak strength: Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Lowest pressure: 990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 7.9
Identifier: WP081965

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)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
May 30, 06:00	17.6N 108.7E	25 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
May 30, 12:00	17.4N 109.2E	30 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
May 30, 18:00	17.3N 109.6E	45 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
May 31, 00:00	16.9N 110.2E	60 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
May 31, 06:00	16.5N 110.8E	70 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
May 31, 12:00	16.2N 111.3E	80 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
May 31, 18:00	15.9N 111.6E	70 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 1, 00:00	15.5N 112.2E	60 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 1, 06:00	15.4N 112.7E	50 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 1, 12:00	15.2N 113.1E	45 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 1, 18:00	15.2N 113.4E	45 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 2, 00:00	15.6N 113.7E	50 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 2, 06:00	16.1N 113.8E	60 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 2, 12:00	16.7N 113.6E	65 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 2, 18:00	17.3N 113.2E	65 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 3, 00:00	18.0N 113.1E	70 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 3, 06:00	18.6N 113.3E	70 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 3, 12:00	19.2N 113.8E	70 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 3, 18:00	20.2N 114.4E	70 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 4, 00:00	21.1N 114.8E	70 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 4, 06:00	22.2N 115.6E	65 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 4, 12:00	23.2N 116.4E	30 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 4, 18:00	24.5N 114.0E	50 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 5, 00:00	26.0N 109.0E	35 kt	1004 mb	Mixed
Jun 5, 06:00	27.0N 107.0E	25 kt	1004 mb	Mixed
Jun 5, 12:00	23.9N 122.7E		1004 mb	Mixed
Jun 5, 18:00	24.6N 124.7E		1003 mb	Mixed
Jun 6, 00:00	25.3N 126.3E		1005 mb	Mixed
Jun 6, 06:00	25.8N 128.1E		1004 mb	Mixed
Jun 6, 12:00	26.6N 130.0E		1004 mb	Mixed
Jun 6, 18:00	27.5N 132.0E		1005 mb	Mixed
Jun 7, 00:00	28.3N 134.1E		1004 mb	Mixed
Jun 7, 06:00	29.1N 136.5E		1004 mb	Mixed
Jun 7, 12:00	30.4N 139.0E		1006 mb	Mixed
Jun 7, 18:00	31.8N 141.1E		1007 mb	Mixed
Jun 8, 00:00	33.0N 143.5E		1010 mb	Mixed
Jun 8, 06:00	33.6N 146.0E		1010 mb	Mixed
Jun 8, 12:00	34.0N 148.5E		1014 mb	Mixed

Other Western 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.