The 1965 season

Tropical Storm Vera (1965)

Tropical Storm Vera peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between March 6, 1965 and March 7, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Vera, 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
March 6, 1965 to March 7, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.4
Identifier
WP051965

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 6, 06:0010.5N 128.0E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Mar 6, 12:0010.7N 127.3E35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Mar 6, 18:0010.8N 126.7E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Mar 7, 00:0011.0N 126.0E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Mar 7, 06:0011.2N 125.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Mar 7, 12:0012.3N 124.3E1006 mbTropical storm
Mar 7, 18:0012.5N 123.0E1006 mbTropical storm

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.