The 1965 season

Tropical Depression Dolly (1965)

Tropical Depression Dolly peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between February 25, 1965 and March 3, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 972 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Depression Dolly. 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
South Indian
Dates
February 25, 1965 to March 3, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
972 mb (28.70 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 585 km (364 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH351965

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
Feb 25, 12:0014.7S 110.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 25, 18:0015.7S 109.1ETropical storm
Feb 26, 00:0016.2S 108.3ETropical storm
Feb 26, 06:0016.3S 107.6ETropical storm
Feb 26, 12:0016.3S 107.0E972 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 18:0016.6S 106.6ETropical storm
Feb 27, 00:0017.1S 106.1ETropical storm
Feb 27, 06:0018.0S 105.3ETropical storm
Feb 27, 12:0019.0S 104.6E984 mbTropical storm
Feb 27, 18:0020.3S 104.7ETropical storm
Feb 28, 00:0021.3S 105.1ETropical storm
Feb 28, 06:0021.1S 105.6ETropical storm
Feb 28, 12:0021.1S 106.2E992 mbTropical storm
Feb 28, 18:0021.4S 106.7ETropical storm
Mar 1, 00:0021.8S 107.0ETropical storm
Mar 1, 06:0022.2S 107.2ETropical storm
Mar 1, 12:0022.7S 107.3E992 mbTropical storm
Mar 1, 18:0023.2S 107.5ETropical storm
Mar 2, 00:0023.7S 107.6ETropical storm
Mar 2, 06:0023.8S 107.1ETropical storm
Mar 2, 12:0024.0S 106.5E992 mbTropical storm
Mar 2, 18:0024.4S 106.3ETropical storm
Mar 3, 00:0024.8S 105.9ETropical storm
Mar 3, 06:0025.2S 105.3ETropical storm
Mar 3, 12:0025.7S 104.6ETropical storm
Mar 3, 18:0025.7S 103.8ETropical storm

Other South Indian 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.