The 1965 season

Super Typhoon Trix (1965)

Super Typhoon Trix reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between September 7, 1965 and September 23, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 935 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Super Typhoon Trix. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
September 7, 1965 to September 23, 1965
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
935 mb (27.61 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
32.2
Identifier
WP251965

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
Sep 7, 18:0011.0N 143.0E1006 mbMixed
Sep 8, 00:0010.9N 142.0E1006 mbMixed
Sep 8, 06:0011.0N 141.2E1006 mbMixed
Sep 8, 12:0011.2N 140.4E1006 mbMixed
Sep 8, 18:0011.5N 139.7E1006 mbMixed
Sep 9, 00:0012.1N 139.1E1006 mbMixed
Sep 9, 06:0013.0N 139.0E1002 mbMixed
Sep 9, 12:0014.0N 139.1E1004 mbMixed
Sep 9, 18:0014.7N 138.9E1004 mbMixed
Sep 10, 00:0015.2N 138.4E1004 mbMixed
Sep 10, 06:0015.6N 138.2E1000 mbMixed
Sep 10, 12:0016.0N 137.9E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0016.4N 137.8E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0016.7N 137.4E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0016.9N 137.2E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0017.6N 137.2E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0018.2N 137.0E85 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0018.6N 136.6E85 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0019.0N 136.0E85 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0019.4N 135.0E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0020.1N 134.4E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0020.6N 133.8E100 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0020.8N 133.2E105 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0021.1N 132.5E105 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0021.8N 131.7E115 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0022.2N 131.0E130 kt950 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0022.2N 130.4E130 kt950 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0022.3N 129.5E130 kt950 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0022.4N 128.9E130 kt940 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0022.7N 128.5E130 kt935 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0023.0N 128.7E125 kt935 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0023.3N 128.7E120 kt940 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0023.5N 128.9E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0024.5N 129.5E110 kt945 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0025.4N 130.5E110 kt945 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0026.7N 131.3E110 kt945 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0028.1N 132.5E100 kt945 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0029.9N 133.7E100 kt950 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0031.9N 135.5E90 kt955 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0034.2N 137.4E85 kt955 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0036.5N 139.8E75 kt968 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0040.1N 141.2E65 kt972 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0043.6N 144.2E55 kt977 mbMixed
Sep 18, 12:0045.9N 147.1E45 kt978 mbMixed
Sep 18, 18:0047.5N 148.2E55 kt974 mbMixed
Sep 19, 00:0050.5N 147.0E60 kt974 mbMixed
Sep 19, 06:0051.0N 145.5E55 kt980 mbMixed
Sep 19, 12:0050.8N 145.0E50 kt980 mbMixed
Sep 19, 18:0051.0N 144.0E45 kt980 mbMixed
Sep 20, 00:0052.0N 145.5E40 kt980 mbMixed
Sep 20, 06:0051.0N 147.0E35 kt980 mbMixed
Sep 20, 12:0052.0N 149.0E980 mbExtratropical
Sep 20, 18:0051.7N 150.0E988 mbExtratropical
Sep 21, 00:0051.6N 151.1E990 mbExtratropical
Sep 21, 06:0051.3N 152.4E992 mbExtratropical
Sep 21, 12:0051.0N 153.6E994 mbExtratropical
Sep 21, 18:0050.4N 154.7E996 mbExtratropical
Sep 22, 00:0050.1N 157.6E1000 mbExtratropical
Sep 22, 06:0049.7N 161.1E1002 mbExtratropical
Sep 22, 12:0048.0N 164.0E1002 mbExtratropical
Sep 22, 18:0046.7N 168.2E1004 mbExtratropical
Sep 23, 00:0045.8N 174.0E1005 mbExtratropical
Sep 23, 06:0044.7N 178.1E1004 mbExtratropical
Sep 23, 12:0044.3N 181.3EExtratropical

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.