Tropical Storm Debbie (1965)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 24, 1965 to September 30, 1965

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)

Lowest pressure

1000 mb (29.53 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

1.7

Fastest the center moved

9 kt (10 mph)

Identifier

AL051965

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.

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 1,244 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 17.20 inches (437 mm).

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1965Tropical Storm50 kt · 1005 mb
• Hurricane AnnaNorth Atlantic · 1965Cat 290 kt
• Hurricane BetsyNorth Atlantic · 1965 · 81 deathsCat 4120 kt · 942 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1965Tropical Storm50 kt · 991 mb
• Hurricane CarolNorth Atlantic · 1965Cat 180 kt · 974 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1965Tropical Storm60 kt · 993 mb
• Hurricane ElenaNorth Atlantic · 1965Cat 295 kt · 977 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1965Tropical Storm55 kt · 1004 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1965Tropical Storm45 kt · 997 mb

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.

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.

• Wikipedia article: Tropical Storm Debbie