The 1965 season

Tropical Storm Gloria (1965)

Tropical Storm Gloria peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between December 18, 1965 and December 23, 1965, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Gloria. 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
December 18, 1965 to December 23, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Identifier
WP351965

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
Dec 18, 06:007.8N 110.2E30 ktMixed
Dec 18, 12:008.4N 109.4E30 ktMixed
Dec 18, 18:008.5N 108.3E35 ktMixed
Dec 19, 00:008.3N 107.3E35 ktMixed
Dec 19, 06:008.4N 106.3E40 ktTropical storm
Dec 19, 12:007.9N 105.9E40 ktTropical storm
Dec 19, 18:007.7N 104.7E35 ktTropical storm
Dec 20, 00:007.5N 103.5E35 ktMixed
Dec 20, 06:007.2N 102.3E30 ktMixed
Dec 20, 12:007.1N 101.5E30 ktMixed
Dec 20, 18:007.1N 100.8E30 ktMixed
Dec 21, 00:007.2N 100.1E30 ktMixed
Dec 21, 06:006.6N 98.5ETropical storm
Dec 21, 12:006.7N 96.6ETropical storm
Dec 21, 18:007.2N 94.2ETropical storm
Dec 22, 00:007.7N 92.2ETropical storm
Dec 22, 06:007.9N 91.8ETropical storm
Dec 22, 12:007.9N 91.9ETropical storm
Dec 22, 18:007.9N 91.8ETropical storm
Dec 23, 00:008.0N 91.4ETropical 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.