The 1965 season

Super Typhoon Olive (1965)

Super Typhoon Olive reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between August 26, 1965 and September 6, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 940 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Olive, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1965 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
August 26, 1965 to September 6, 1965
Peak strength
Category 5, 150 kt (173 mph)
Lowest pressure
940 mb (27.76 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 245 km (152 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
22.6
Identifier
WP211965

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 26, 06:0014.1N 143.5E1006 mbMixed
Aug 26, 12:0014.7N 145.0E1006 mbMixed
Aug 26, 18:0015.9N 146.6E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0017.0N 147.6E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0017.5N 147.6E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0018.3N 147.5E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0018.7N 147.5E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0019.3N 147.4E70 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0019.8N 147.8E80 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0020.5N 148.0E90 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0021.4N 148.1E130 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0022.2N 147.9E150 kt955 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0022.9N 147.6E140 kt945 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0023.8N 147.8E130 kt945 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0024.5N 148.0E130 kt945 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0025.8N 147.8E130 kt945 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0027.0N 147.7E130 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0028.1N 147.6E120 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0029.3N 147.4E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0030.3N 147.2E110 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0031.4N 146.7E100 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0032.5N 146.3E90 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0033.3N 146.2E80 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0033.8N 146.2E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0034.5N 146.0E60 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0035.2N 146.2E60 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0035.8N 146.7E50 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0036.4N 147.5E45 kt978 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0036.9N 148.0E978 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0037.3N 148.6E980 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0037.7N 149.4E980 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0038.1N 150.1E980 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0038.5N 150.9E980 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0039.0N 151.6E980 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0039.6N 152.5E980 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0040.4N 153.5E986 mbExtratropical
Sep 4, 06:0041.0N 154.7E988 mbExtratropical
Sep 4, 12:0041.7N 156.0E992 mbExtratropical
Sep 4, 18:0042.4N 157.0E994 mbExtratropical
Sep 5, 00:0043.5N 157.1E994 mbExtratropical
Sep 5, 06:0045.1N 157.0E994 mbExtratropical
Sep 5, 12:0046.4N 157.5E994 mbExtratropical
Sep 5, 18:0047.5N 157.9E994 mbExtratropical
Sep 6, 00:0048.0N 158.0E994 mbExtratropical
Sep 6, 06:0048.5N 158.1E990 mbExtratropical
Sep 6, 12:0049.0N 159.0E994 mbExtratropical
Sep 6, 18:0049.5N 161.5E996 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.