The 1965 season

Super Typhoon Dinah (1965)

Super Typhoon Dinah reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between June 10, 1965 and June 24, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 935 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Super Typhoon Dinah. 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 10, 1965 to June 24, 1965
Peak strength
Category 5, 160 kt (184 mph)
Lowest pressure
935 mb (27.61 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
34.3
Identifier
WP101965

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 10, 06:009.2N 151.4E1006 mbMixed
Jun 10, 12:009.9N 150.4E1006 mbMixed
Jun 10, 18:0010.5N 149.2E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 00:0010.7N 148.3E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 06:0011.0N 147.3E1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 12:0011.1N 146.3E1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 18:0011.3N 145.3E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 00:0011.5N 144.3E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 06:0011.7N 143.4E25 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 12:0011.9N 142.1E40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 18:0012.2N 140.8E55 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 00:0012.2N 139.9E65 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 06:0012.3N 139.2E70 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 12:0012.4N 138.3E75 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 18:0012.5N 137.7E80 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 00:0013.0N 136.7E90 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 06:0013.5N 135.6E80 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 12:0013.8N 134.5E90 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 18:0013.9N 133.3E95 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 00:0014.2N 132.0E110 kt960 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 06:0014.5N 131.0E120 kt950 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 12:0014.8N 130.0E120 kt950 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 18:0015.3N 129.0E130 kt950 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 00:0015.7N 128.1E130 kt950 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 06:0016.2N 127.2E130 kt945 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 12:0016.5N 126.4E130 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 18:0016.6N 125.2E130 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 00:0017.2N 124.3E150 kt935 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 06:0017.8N 123.5E160 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 12:0018.5N 122.7E150 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 18:0019.3N 122.1E150 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 00:0020.4N 121.5E140 kt950 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 06:0021.4N 121.0E130 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 12:0022.5N 121.2E120 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 18:0023.7N 121.0E70 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 00:0025.3N 121.3E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 06:0027.3N 122.8E50 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 12:0029.2N 125.3E55 kt1002 mbMixed
Jun 19, 18:0031.4N 128.5E50 kt1002 mbMixed
Jun 20, 00:0033.0N 131.0E40 kt1002 mbMixed
Jun 20, 06:0035.0N 132.5E30 kt1003 mbMixed
Jun 20, 12:0037.0N 135.0E20 kt1004 mbMixed
Jun 20, 18:0037.2N 139.0E1004 mbExtratropical
Jun 21, 00:0037.7N 142.7E1004 mbExtratropical
Jun 21, 06:0038.8N 144.8E1003 mbExtratropical
Jun 21, 12:0039.9N 146.9E1002 mbExtratropical
Jun 21, 18:0040.9N 150.0E996 mbExtratropical
Jun 22, 00:0042.0N 152.0E996 mbExtratropical
Jun 22, 06:0042.8N 153.5E996 mbExtratropical
Jun 22, 12:0042.6N 155.5E990 mbExtratropical
Jun 22, 18:0042.3N 157.3E996 mbExtratropical
Jun 23, 00:0040.8N 158.4E1000 mbExtratropical
Jun 23, 06:0040.4N 159.3E999 mbExtratropical
Jun 23, 12:0040.1N 160.1E1002 mbExtratropical
Jun 23, 18:0040.8N 162.0E1002 mbExtratropical
Jun 24, 00:0041.6N 164.0E1000 mbExtratropical
Jun 24, 06:0042.3N 165.8E1000 mbExtratropical

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.