The 1965 season

Tropical Storm Thelma (1965)

Tropical Storm Thelma peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between February 15, 1965 and February 19, 1965.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Thelma, 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
February 15, 1965 to February 19, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 301 km (187 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Identifier
WP041965

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
Feb 15, 06:008.5N 139.5EDisturbance
Feb 15, 12:007.7N 138.8EDisturbance
Feb 15, 18:007.0N 138.0EDisturbance
Feb 16, 00:006.6N 137.4EDisturbance
Feb 16, 06:006.2N 136.8EDisturbance
Feb 16, 12:006.2N 136.2EDisturbance
Feb 16, 18:006.2N 135.5EDisturbance
Feb 17, 00:006.1N 135.0EDisturbance
Feb 17, 06:006.1N 134.6EDisturbance
Feb 17, 12:006.0N 134.1EDisturbance
Feb 17, 18:006.3N 133.6EDisturbance
Feb 18, 00:006.6N 133.8E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 18, 06:006.8N 132.8E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 18, 12:006.9N 131.9E40 ktTropical storm
Feb 18, 18:007.2N 131.2E40 ktTropical storm
Feb 19, 00:007.3N 130.3E40 ktTropical storm
Feb 19, 06:007.5N 129.3E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 19, 12:007.7N 128.8E25 ktMixed
Feb 19, 18:009.0N 130.0EDisturbance

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.