The 1965 season

Tropical Depression Ruth (1965)

Tropical Depression Ruth peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between March 24, 1965 and April 3, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 972 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Ruth, 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
South Indian
Dates
March 24, 1965 to April 3, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
972 mb (28.70 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 15 km (9 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH381965

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
Mar 24, 00:008.7S 130.0ETropical storm
Mar 24, 06:009.0S 129.7ETropical storm
Mar 24, 12:009.2S 129.5ETropical storm
Mar 24, 18:009.4S 129.2ETropical storm
Mar 25, 00:009.6S 128.8ETropical storm
Mar 25, 06:009.9S 128.4ETropical storm
Mar 25, 12:0010.1S 127.9ETropical storm
Mar 25, 18:0010.5S 127.4ETropical storm
Mar 26, 00:0010.7S 126.9ETropical storm
Mar 26, 06:0010.9S 126.5ETropical storm
Mar 26, 12:0011.0S 126.0ETropical storm
Mar 26, 18:0011.2S 125.5ETropical storm
Mar 27, 00:0011.7S 124.9ETropical storm
Mar 27, 06:0012.4S 124.6ETropical storm
Mar 27, 12:0013.2S 124.5ETropical storm
Mar 27, 18:0014.1S 124.7ETropical storm
Mar 28, 00:0014.8S 124.7ETropical storm
Mar 28, 06:0015.2S 124.2ETropical storm
Mar 28, 12:0015.3S 123.4ETropical storm
Mar 28, 18:0015.4S 122.5ETropical storm
Mar 29, 00:0015.4S 121.6ETropical storm
Mar 29, 06:0015.3S 120.7ETropical storm
Mar 29, 12:0015.3S 119.9ETropical storm
Mar 29, 18:0015.4S 119.0ETropical storm
Mar 30, 00:0015.5S 117.8ETropical storm
Mar 30, 06:0015.8S 115.8ETropical storm
Mar 30, 12:0016.1S 113.6ETropical storm
Mar 30, 18:0016.4S 111.5ETropical storm
Mar 31, 00:0016.7S 109.7ETropical storm
Mar 31, 06:0017.2S 108.4ETropical storm
Mar 31, 12:0017.7S 107.1ETropical storm
Mar 31, 18:0017.9S 105.6ETropical storm
Apr 1, 00:0018.0S 104.2ETropical storm
Apr 1, 06:0018.1S 103.0ETropical storm
Apr 1, 12:0018.1S 101.9ETropical storm
Apr 1, 18:0018.1S 100.9ETropical storm
Apr 2, 00:0018.0S 99.8ETropical storm
Apr 2, 06:0017.7S 98.1ETropical storm
Apr 2, 12:0017.2S 96.2ETropical storm
Apr 2, 18:0016.5S 94.1ETropical storm
Apr 3, 00:0016.0S 92.3ETropical storm
Apr 3, 06:0016.0S 91.1ETropical storm
Apr 3, 12:0016.3S 90.1ETropical storm
Apr 3, 18:0016.6S 89.2ETropical storm

Other South Indian 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.