The 1965 season

Super Typhoon Mary (1965)

Super Typhoon Mary reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between August 14, 1965 and August 25, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 950 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Super Typhoon Mary. 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 14, 1965 to August 25, 1965
Peak strength
Category 5, 150 kt (173 mph)
Lowest pressure
950 mb (28.05 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
20.0
Identifier
WP191965

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 14, 00:0019.8N 138.5E1004 mbMixed
Aug 14, 06:0019.8N 137.8E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0019.8N 136.9E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0019.7N 136.1E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0019.4N 135.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0019.5N 134.3E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0019.5N 133.4E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0019.3N 132.8E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0019.3N 132.3E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0019.7N 131.9E80 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0019.9N 131.1E90 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0020.3N 130.3E110 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0020.8N 129.5E125 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0021.4N 128.6E150 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0022.3N 127.4E150 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0023.0N 125.9E150 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0023.5N 124.6E150 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0024.0N 123.7E140 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0024.3N 122.7E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0024.6N 121.6E80 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0024.7N 121.2E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0024.8N 120.7E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0026.4N 119.3E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0026.2N 119.7E45 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0026.4N 119.2E35 kt995 mbMixed
Aug 20, 06:0026.4N 118.8E30 kt998 mbMixed
Aug 20, 12:0027.4N 119.3E998 mbMixed
Aug 20, 18:0028.5N 119.4E1000 mbMixed
Aug 21, 00:0029.9N 119.9E1000 mbMixed
Aug 21, 06:0031.1N 120.6E998 mbMixed
Aug 21, 12:0032.3N 121.0E998 mbMixed
Aug 21, 18:0033.1N 121.3E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0034.0N 122.0E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0034.9N 122.6E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0035.9N 123.4E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 18:0036.9N 123.8E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 00:0037.5N 124.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0038.3N 124.4E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0039.4N 128.3E1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0041.0N 130.0E1002 mbMixed
Aug 24, 00:0042.0N 134.0E1003 mbExtratropical
Aug 24, 06:0043.0N 136.0E1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 24, 12:0044.0N 138.0E998 mbExtratropical
Aug 24, 18:0046.0N 140.0E996 mbExtratropical
Aug 25, 00:0047.0N 141.0E998 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.