The 1965 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1965)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between September 29, 1965 and October 3, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 993 mb.

Radar

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
September 29, 1965 to October 3, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
993 mb (29.32 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 314 km (195 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.0
Identifier
AL081965

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 29, 00:0032.0N 75.5W40 ktExtratropical
Sep 29, 06:0032.2N 73.0W45 ktExtratropical
Sep 29, 12:0032.4N 70.0W50 ktExtratropical
Sep 29, 18:0032.9N 67.0W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 30, 00:0033.2N 64.0W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 30, 06:0033.6N 61.5W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 30, 12:0034.2N 60.0W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 30, 18:0034.5N 58.8W60 ktExtratropical
Oct 1, 00:0034.6N 57.3W55 ktExtratropical
Oct 1, 06:0034.6N 55.5W55 ktExtratropical
Oct 1, 12:0034.7N 54.0W50 ktExtratropical
Oct 1, 18:0034.7N 54.5W50 ktExtratropical
Oct 2, 00:0034.7N 55.8W50 ktExtratropical
Oct 2, 06:0034.8N 56.8W50 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 2, 12:0035.8N 57.3W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 2, 18:0037.3N 56.5W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 3, 00:0038.8N 55.3W50 ktTropical storm

Other North Atlantic 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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.