1964 Pacific hurricane season
The Pacific hurricane season 1965 officially began on May 15, 1965 at the Eastern Pacific Ocean and on 1 June 1965 at the Central Pacific. It lasted until 30 November 1965. This hurricane season was the least active hurricane season since reliable records. During this season, only five tropical storms have formed, and only a strengthened into a hurricane. The first storm of the season, Tropical Storm Natalie, met in Mexico to the country. About a week later, Hurricane Odessa became the strongest storm of the season.
Storms
Tropical Storm Natalie
The first tropical storm developed on July 6, just off the coast of Mexico. Natalie emigrated northwards, without intensifying. Shortly before his transition to the next day, Natalie developed into an extratropical cyclone. The rest had existed until July 8.
Hurricane Odessa
Hurricane Odessa was formed on July 15. First, the hurricane was heading west-northwest, but on July 18 he turned to the northwest, and shortly thereafter direction West. In the meantime, Odessa retained the hurricane intensity for several days, on July 19 at 18:00 UTC clock, to disperse.
Tropical Storm Prudence
Prudence developed on July 20. He moved towards the west-northwest and has not managed to intensify. After a brief turn toward the west on July 22, he again took a west-northwest direction. Shortly before the release on July 24, the system is turned back towards the west. Even if he never moved about the country, the cyclone high waves along the California coast, with the highest waves in Newport Beach produced.
Tropical Storm Roslyn
The tropical storm Roslyn was formed on August 21, about 800 km south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas. With the same intensity as the previous system Roslyn drifted west-northwest. The storm sounded at 18:00 UTC clock off on August 22.
Tropical Storm Tillie
The last tropical cyclone of the season, Tropical Storm Tillie, developed on July 7. First, the cyclone was moving north-northwest, on September 8, however, about 160 km southwest of Cabo San Lucas, the storm was moving west-northwest. The storm was active for less than 48 hours, Tille built on September 9 at 6:00 clock from UTC. Although the storm remained at sea, its residual moisture was advected over southern Arizona, so that a temporary cold front caused widespread showers and thunderstorms in the evening of September 9. In Tusco, went between the 9th and September 10, 77 mm of rainfall down. At two other locations, one in the Santa Catalina Mountains and the other near Sahuarita, 171 mm rainfall was measured.
Season Summary
With only five named storms, the season was far below the average of 13 storms. In fact, with only five named storms, this is the least number of storms in the hurricane database. Only one tropical storm reached hurricane status, compared with the average of seven per year. 1964 is also one of the few seasons without a major hurricane. However, it is possible that some towers due to the lack of satellite coverage have been missed in this region.
Storm names
The following names were used for named storms that formed in the eastern Pacific in 1964. From this list after the season no names have been deleted. This is a part of Schedule 2, which was used from 1960 to 1965. Names that were not assigned are marked in gray.
- Ava (unused)
- Bernice (unused)
- Claudia (unused)
- Doreen (unused)
- Emily ( unused)
- Florence (unused)
- Glenda (unused)
- Hazel (unused)
- Irah (unused)
- Jennifer (unused)
- Katherine ( unused)
- Lillian (unused)
- Mora (unused)
- Natalie
- Odessa
- Prudence
- Roslyn
- Silvia
- Tillie
- Victoria (unused)
- Wallie (unused)