The 1965 season

Tropical Storm Glenda (1965)

Tropical Storm Glenda peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 13, 1965 and September 22, 1965.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Glenda. 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
September 13, 1965 to September 22, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1107 km (688 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.5
Identifier
EP091965

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
Sep 13, 12:0012.0N 111.9W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0012.1N 113.1W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0012.1N 114.2W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0012.1N 115.3W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0012.2N 116.4W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0012.4N 117.7W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0012.7N 119.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0012.8N 120.1W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0012.9N 121.2W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0013.1N 122.1W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0013.4N 123.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0013.7N 123.6W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0013.9N 124.2W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0014.1N 124.7W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0014.3N 125.2W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0014.5N 125.6W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0014.8N 126.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0015.1N 126.4W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0015.5N 126.9W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0015.9N 127.3W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0016.4N 127.6W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0016.9N 128.1W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0017.4N 128.6W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0017.8N 128.9W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0018.1N 129.3W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0018.5N 129.7W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0019.0N 130.2W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0019.5N 130.7W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0020.0N 131.3W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0020.2N 131.7W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0020.4N 132.1W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0020.7N 132.6W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0021.0N 133.1W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0021.2N 133.5W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0021.4N 134.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0021.7N 134.5W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0022.0N 135.0W45 ktTropical storm

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.