The 1965 season

Tropical Storm Gilda (1965)

Tropical Storm Gilda peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between July 12, 1965 and July 25, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Gilda. 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
July 12, 1965 to July 25, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.3
Identifier
WP131965

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 12, 18:006.5N 155.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:004.1N 151.1E30 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 06:004.9N 150.1E45 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 12:005.7N 149.0E45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 18:006.8N 148.1E35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:007.6N 146.9E30 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:008.1N 145.8E25 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:008.8N 144.6E25 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:009.4N 143.3E25 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0010.0N 141.9E25 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0010.3N 140.9E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0010.7N 139.8E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0011.0N 138.8E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0011.4N 137.6E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0011.9N 136.5E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0012.5N 135.5E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0012.9N 134.5E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0013.4N 133.3E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0013.8N 131.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0014.2N 130.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0014.7N 129.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0015.3N 128.3E25 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0015.8N 127.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0016.0N 126.1E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0015.9N 124.9E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0016.3N 123.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 06:0016.8N 122.3E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 12:0017.5N 121.1E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 18:0018.2N 119.9E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 00:0018.8N 118.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 06:0019.7N 117.8E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 12:0019.6N 116.4E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 18:0018.9N 115.0E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 00:0018.6N 113.9E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0018.4N 113.3E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0018.2N 112.8E60 kt986 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0018.6N 112.4E60 kt986 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0019.0N 112.4E55 kt986 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0019.5N 112.3E60 kt986 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0020.0N 112.1E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0020.7N 111.9E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0021.3N 111.5E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0021.7N 110.9E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0022.1N 110.3E20 kt996 mbMixed
Jul 23, 18:0022.0N 110.0E998 mbMixed
Jul 24, 00:0022.0N 109.0E998 mbMixed
Jul 24, 06:0022.0N 107.8E998 mbMixed
Jul 24, 12:0022.0N 105.8E1000 mbMixed
Jul 24, 18:0022.0N 103.8E1000 mbMixed
Jul 25, 00:0022.0N 102.0E1002 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.