The 1965 season

Tropical Storm Wendy (1965)

Tropical Storm Wendy peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between September 15, 1965 and September 30, 1965, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Wendy, 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
September 15, 1965 to September 30, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 240 km (149 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.4
Identifier
WP271965

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 15, 18:007.6N 152.9E1006 mbMixed
Sep 16, 00:007.9N 152.0E1007 mbMixed
Sep 16, 06:008.1N 151.7E25 kt1005 mbMixed
Sep 16, 12:008.6N 150.7E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Sep 16, 18:008.9N 149.4E25 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 17, 00:009.6N 148.0E25 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 17, 06:0011.7N 149.6E25 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 17, 12:0012.2N 148.8E30 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 17, 18:0012.7N 148.1E30 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 18, 00:0013.2N 147.3E30 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 18, 06:0013.7N 146.6E30 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 18, 12:0014.3N 145.9E30 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 18, 18:0014.9N 145.2E30 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 19, 00:0015.4N 144.5E30 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 19, 06:0016.3N 143.8E30 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 19, 12:0017.0N 143.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0017.6N 142.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0017.7N 141.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0018.4N 139.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0019.4N 138.7E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0020.4N 137.5E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0021.6N 136.4E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0021.8N 135.1E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0022.1N 134.0E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0022.3N 133.5E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0022.7N 133.1E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0023.0N 132.8E45 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0023.3N 132.7E45 kt986 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0023.7N 132.5E50 kt986 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0024.0N 132.5E50 kt986 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0024.5N 132.7E45 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0025.1N 133.0E40 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0025.8N 133.4E35 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0026.8N 133.6E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0028.0N 134.4E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0029.6N 135.9E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0030.7N 137.0E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0031.7N 138.3E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0032.6N 139.4E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0033.1N 141.2E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0033.9N 143.4E40 kt990 mbMixed
Sep 26, 00:0034.0N 146.5E45 kt990 mbMixed
Sep 26, 06:0034.5N 147.5E35 kt985 mbMixed
Sep 26, 12:0038.5N 148.2E30 kt980 mbMixed
Sep 26, 18:0039.5N 147.6E980 mbMixed
Sep 27, 00:0040.3N 150.0E982 mbExtratropical
Sep 27, 06:0041.0N 153.0E986 mbExtratropical
Sep 27, 12:0041.6N 156.0E994 mbExtratropical
Sep 27, 18:0042.9N 158.1E996 mbExtratropical
Sep 28, 00:0044.0N 160.0E998 mbExtratropical
Sep 28, 06:0045.1N 161.2E1002 mbExtratropical
Sep 28, 12:0046.5N 161.8E1004 mbExtratropical
Sep 28, 18:0047.5N 162.0E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 29, 00:0048.0N 162.0E1008 mbExtratropical
Sep 29, 06:0048.8N 162.2E1009 mbExtratropical
Sep 29, 12:0049.8N 162.8E1009 mbExtratropical
Sep 29, 18:0051.0N 164.0E1009 mbExtratropical
Sep 30, 00:0052.4N 165.3E1009 mbExtratropical
Sep 30, 06:0053.0N 169.0E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 30, 12:0053.0N 173.8E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 30, 18:0052.0N 176.0E1010 mbExtratropical

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.