The 1965 season

Tropical Storm Polly (1965)

Tropical Storm Polly peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between August 28, 1965 and September 3, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Polly. 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 28, 1965 to September 3, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Identifier
WP221965

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 28, 12:0018.8N 118.1EDisturbance
Aug 28, 18:0017.5N 117.1EDisturbance
Aug 29, 00:0016.5N 116.5EDisturbance
Aug 29, 06:0015.6N 116.7ETropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0015.8N 117.8ETropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0016.0N 119.0ETropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0016.7N 118.5ETropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0016.0N 118.1E1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0015.3N 118.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0013.4N 118.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0013.8N 117.5E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0014.2N 116.3E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0014.6N 115.2E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0015.0N 114.2E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0015.5N 113.4E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0016.2N 112.5E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0016.6N 111.7E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0016.5N 110.9E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0016.8N 109.3E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0017.3N 107.5E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0017.8N 106.0E30 kt996 mbMixed
Sep 2, 18:0017.8N 104.3E1002 mbMixed
Sep 3, 00:0017.7N 101.9ETropical 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.