Super Typhoon Shirley (1965)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

August 31, 1965 to September 13, 1965

Peak strength

Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)

Lowest pressure

940 mb (27.76 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

20.9

Identifier

WP241965

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.

• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Typhoon PatsyWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 165 kt · 990 mb
• Tropical Storm RuthWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Storm60 kt · 994 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm SarahWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Storm45 kt · 1002 mb
• Tropical Storm ThelmaWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Storm40 kt
• Tropical Storm VeraWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Storm40 kt · 1004 mb
• Typhoon WandaWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 165 kt · 996 mb
• Typhoon AmyWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 3100 kt · 976 mb
• Typhoon CarlaWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 4120 kt · 988 mb
• Typhoon BabeWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 180 kt · 990 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Super Typhoon DinahWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 5160 kt · 935 mb
• Tropical Storm EmmaWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Storm50 kt · 993 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Super Typhoon FredaWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 5140 kt · 925 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm GildaWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Storm60 kt · 985 mb
• Typhoon HarrietWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 3100 kt · 970 mb
• Super Typhoon JeanWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 5140 kt · 940 mb
• Typhoon IvyWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 180 kt · 990 mb
• Tropical Storm KimWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Storm60 kt · 990 mb
• Super Typhoon MaryWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 5150 kt · 950 mb
• Tropical Storm NadineWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Storm60 kt · 990 mb
• Super Typhoon LucyWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 5150 kt · 940 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Super Typhoon OliveWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 5150 kt · 940 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm PollyWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Storm45 kt · 994 mb
• Typhoon RoseWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 3100 kt · 980 mb
• Super Typhoon TrixWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 4130 kt · 935 mb
• Typhoon VirginiaWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 165 kt · 980 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm WendyWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Storm50 kt · 980 mb
• Tropical Depression AgnesWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm AgnesWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Storm60 kt · 990 mb
• Super Typhoon BessWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 5150 kt · 900 mb
• Super Typhoon CarmenWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 5150 kt · 914 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Typhoon DellaWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 285 kt · 975 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm ElaineWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Storm50 kt · 996 mb
• Super Typhoon FayeWestern Pacific · 1965Cat 4135 kt · 930 mb
• Tropical Storm GloriaWestern Pacific · 1965Tropical Storm40 kt

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.

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.