Tropical Depression Hazel (1965)

Tropical Depression Hazel peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between January 15, 1965 and January 16, 1965, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Depression Hazel. 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: South Indian
Dates: January 15, 1965 to January 16, 1965
Peak strength: Tropical Depression
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 0.0
Identifier: SH181965

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)	Position	Status
Jan 15, 06:00	17.5S 43.0E	Tropical storm
Jan 15, 12:00	17.7S 43.6E	Mixed
Jan 15, 18:00	17.9S 44.0E	Mixed
Jan 16, 00:00	18.0S 44.3E	Tropical storm
Jan 16, 06:00	18.0S 44.5E	Tropical storm

Other South Indian 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.