The 1965 season

Super Typhoon Freda (1965)

Super Typhoon Freda reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between July 6, 1965 and July 16, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 925 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Freda, 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
July 6, 1965 to July 16, 1965
Peak strength
Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)
Lowest pressure
925 mb (27.32 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
32.0
Identifier
WP121965

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
Jul 6, 06:008.1N 143.9E1006 mbMixed
Jul 6, 12:008.3N 143.3E1006 mbMixed
Jul 6, 18:008.5N 142.7E1006 mbMixed
Jul 7, 00:008.8N 142.3E1004 mbMixed
Jul 7, 06:009.3N 141.8E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 7, 12:009.9N 141.4E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 7, 18:0010.7N 140.9E50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 00:0011.4N 140.1E50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 06:0012.1N 139.4E50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 12:0012.6N 138.5E60 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 18:0013.2N 137.2E60 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 00:0013.5N 135.6E70 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 06:0013.5N 134.4E80 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 12:0013.4N 133.0E80 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 18:0013.3N 131.6E80 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 00:0012.8N 131.3E90 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 06:0012.4N 131.2E110 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 12:0012.2N 130.7E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 18:0012.3N 130.3E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 00:0012.3N 130.3E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 06:0012.3N 130.3E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 12:0012.8N 130.0E120 kt950 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 18:0013.6N 129.2E140 kt950 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0014.2N 128.3E140 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0014.7N 127.4E140 kt925 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0015.2N 126.4E140 kt925 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0015.8N 125.2E140 kt925 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:0016.8N 123.7E140 kt930 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 06:0017.5N 122.3E130 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 12:0017.6N 120.6E75 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 18:0017.5N 118.9E75 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:0018.1N 117.3E85 kt965 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0018.8N 116.0E90 kt965 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0019.7N 114.7E100 kt965 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0020.1N 112.8E100 kt965 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0020.4N 111.0E100 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0020.8N 109.5E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0021.4N 108.2E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0022.3N 107.1E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0022.8N 106.2E25 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0022.8N 104.0E992 mbMixed
Jul 16, 12:0024.5N 100.0E996 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0026.5N 98.5ETropical storm

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.