The 1965 season

Typhoon Harriet (1965)

Typhoon Harriet reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between July 19, 1965 and July 30, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Harriet. 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 19, 1965 to July 30, 1965
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.6
Identifier
WP141965

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 19, 06:009.5N 152.3E1006 mbMixed
Jul 19, 12:009.8N 150.4E1006 mbMixed
Jul 19, 18:009.8N 149.0E1004 mbMixed
Jul 20, 00:009.7N 147.6E1006 mbMixed
Jul 20, 06:009.8N 146.4E1004 mbMixed
Jul 20, 12:009.9N 145.2E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 18:0010.0N 144.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 00:0011.0N 143.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0011.0N 143.0E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0011.0N 143.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0011.0N 143.0E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0011.0N 143.0E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0011.8N 144.1E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0013.1N 144.1E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0013.2N 143.1E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0013.4N 141.5E65 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0014.4N 139.3E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0015.5N 137.5E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0016.6N 136.0E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 00:0017.6N 134.7E70 kt986 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 06:0018.4N 133.2E75 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 12:0019.1N 131.6E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 18:0019.6N 129.8E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 00:0020.2N 127.8E90 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 06:0021.1N 126.1E95 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0021.8N 124.3E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0022.3N 122.7E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0022.8N 121.2E100 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0023.4N 119.8E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0024.4N 118.7E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0025.6N 117.6E35 kt990 mbMixed
Jul 27, 00:0026.9N 116.7E25 kt994 mbMixed
Jul 27, 06:0028.3N 117.1E996 mbMixed
Jul 27, 12:0029.9N 117.4E996 mbMixed
Jul 27, 18:0031.7N 117.7E996 mbMixed
Jul 28, 00:0035.0N 120.0E998 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0036.7N 121.4E998 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0038.5N 123.0E996 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0039.3N 125.0E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 29, 00:0040.0N 128.3E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 29, 06:0040.7N 131.0E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 29, 12:0041.6N 134.0E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 29, 18:0042.8N 137.0E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 30, 00:0044.0N 141.0E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 30, 06:0043.5N 142.7E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 30, 12:0044.0N 143.0E998 mbExtratropical
Jul 30, 18:0044.0N 143.2E999 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.