The 1965 season

Tropical Storm Nadine (1965)

Tropical Storm Nadine peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between August 14, 1965 and August 21, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

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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 21, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.1
Identifier
WP201965

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, 06:0016.5N 115.5E1008 mbMixed
Aug 14, 12:0016.7N 115.1E1008 mbMixed
Aug 14, 18:0016.9N 114.5E1008 mbMixed
Aug 15, 00:0017.2N 113.9E1008 mbMixed
Aug 15, 06:0017.4N 113.7E1008 mbMixed
Aug 15, 12:0017.9N 113.6E1008 mbMixed
Aug 15, 18:0018.4N 113.6E1006 mbMixed
Aug 16, 00:0018.3N 113.5E1006 mbMixed
Aug 16, 06:0018.1N 113.2E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0018.2N 113.4E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0018.5N 113.1E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0018.7N 112.6E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0018.6N 112.1E60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0018.7N 111.5E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0018.8N 110.5E60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0018.8N 109.3E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0018.7N 108.2E50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0018.7N 106.9E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0018.5N 105.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0018.4N 104.4E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0017.3N 101.4E1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0017.7N 100.5ETropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0017.9N 99.4ETropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0018.4N 97.9ETropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0018.8N 96.4ETropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0019.0N 94.7ETropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0019.0N 92.8ETropical storm
Aug 21, 00:0018.9N 90.8ETropical 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.