The 1965 season

Hurricane Emily (1965)

Hurricane Emily reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between August 30, 1965 and September 6, 1965, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Emily. 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
August 30, 1965 to September 6, 1965
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.0
Identifier
EP071965

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
Aug 30, 00:0017.0N 108.4W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0018.0N 108.8W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0018.9N 109.1W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0019.8N 109.2W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0020.6N 109.3W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0021.3N 109.5W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0022.0N 110.0W80 ktHurricane
Aug 31, 18:0022.7N 110.9W75 ktHurricane
Sep 1, 00:0023.3N 111.8W75 ktHurricane
Sep 1, 06:0023.7N 112.5W75 ktHurricane
Sep 1, 12:0024.1N 113.1W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0024.6N 113.7W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0025.0N 114.2W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0025.2N 114.7W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0025.3N 115.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0025.6N 115.2W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0026.0N 115.5W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0026.3N 115.7W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 3, 12:0026.6N 116.0W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 3, 18:0027.0N 116.3W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 4, 00:0027.5N 116.6W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 4, 06:0027.8N 116.7W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 4, 12:0028.2N 116.8W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 4, 18:0028.6N 116.9W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 5, 00:0029.0N 117.0W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 5, 06:0029.8N 117.1W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 5, 12:0030.2N 117.1W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 5, 18:0030.9N 116.7W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 6, 00:0031.5N 116.2W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 6, 06:0032.0N 115.8W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 6, 12:0032.5N 115.5W25 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.