The 1965 season

Tropical Storm Kim (1965)

Tropical Storm Kim peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between August 2, 1965 and August 8, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Kim. 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
August 2, 1965 to August 8, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 502 km (312 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.7
Identifier
WP171965

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
Aug 2, 00:0024.4N 139.0E1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0025.0N 139.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 12:0025.5N 139.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0026.1N 139.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:0026.5N 139.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 06:0027.2N 139.1E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 12:0027.6N 139.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 18:0028.0N 139.9E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 00:0028.5N 140.2E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 06:0029.0N 140.7E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 12:0029.4N 141.0E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 18:0030.2N 141.6E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 00:0030.8N 142.3E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 06:0031.1N 142.9E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 12:0031.4N 143.6E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 18:0031.8N 144.2E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 00:0032.3N 144.8E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 06:0032.8N 145.7E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 12:0033.6N 146.6E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 18:0034.4N 147.3E50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 00:0035.2N 148.0E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 06:0035.9N 148.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 12:0036.7N 149.4E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 18:0037.5N 151.1E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 00:0037.7N 152.0E1004 mbMixed
Aug 8, 06:0038.1N 153.1E1004 mbMixed
Aug 8, 12:0038.3N 154.5E1008 mbMixed
Aug 8, 18:0038.0N 156.0E1007 mbMixed

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.