The 1965 North Indian Ocean cyclone season had no bounds, but cyclones tend to form between April and December, with peaks in May and November. The season has no official bounds but cyclones tend to form between April and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...
. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean—the
Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line between ...
to the east of the
Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a list of the physiographic regions of the world, physiographical region in United Nations geoscheme for Asia#Southern Asia, Southern Asia. It is situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian O ...
and the
Arabian Sea
The Arabian Sea ( ar, اَلْبَحرْ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Bahr al-ˁArabī) is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan, Iran and the Gulf of Oman, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel ...
to the west of India. The official
Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre
A Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre (RSMC) is responsible for the distribution of information, advisories, and warnings regarding the specific program they have a part of, agreed by consensus at the World Meteorological Organization as p ...
in this basin is the
India Meteorological Department
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is an agency of the Ministry of Earth Sciences of the Government of India. It is the principal agency responsible for meteorological observations, weather forecasting and seismology. IMD is headquarter ...
(IMD), while the
Joint Typhoon Warning Center
The Joint typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) is a joint United States Navy – United States Air Force command in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The JTWC is responsible for the issuing of tropical cyclone warnings in the North-West Pacific Ocean, South P ...
releases unofficial advisories. An average of four to six storms form in the North Indian Ocean every season with peaks in May and November.
Cyclones occurring between the meridians
45°E and
100°E are included in the season by the IMD.
Systems
Cyclone One (01B)
Two cyclones that hit on May 11 and June 1 killed a total of 47,000 people.
Cyclone Two (02B)
Two cyclones that hit on May 11 and June 1 killed a total of 47,000 people.
Depression Three (03B)
Depression Four (04B)
Depression Five
Tropical Storm Six (06B)
Depression Seven (07B)
Depression Eight (08B)
Depression Nine (09B)
Depression Ten (10B)
Tropical Storm Eleven (11B)
Tropical Storm Twelve (12A)
In December 1965, a cyclone hit
Karachi
Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former cap ...
, killing an estimated 10,000 people, making it
Pakistan
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's deadliest tropical cyclone since 1950.
Cyclone Thirteen (13B)
A cyclone hit
East Pakistan
East Pakistan was a Pakistani province established in 1955 by the One Unit Scheme, One Unit Policy, renaming the province as such from East Bengal, which, in modern times, is split between India and Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India ...
on December 15, causing about 10,000 casualties.
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Cyclone Fourteen (14B)
See also
* North Indian Ocean tropical cyclone
In the Indian Ocean north of the equator, tropical cyclones can form throughout the year on either side of India, although most frequently between April and June, and between October and December.
Sub-basins
The North Indian Ocean is the lea ...
* List of tropical cyclone records
This is a condensed list of worldwide tropical cyclone records set by different storms and seasons.
Major records
See also
* List of weather records
** Tornado records
* List of the most intense tropical cyclones
*List of wettest tropi ...
* 1965 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1965 Atlantic hurricane season was the first to use the modern-day bounds for an Atlantic hurricane season, which are June 1 to November 30. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form ...
* 1965 Pacific hurricane season
The 1965 Pacific hurricane season officially started May 15, 1965, in the eastern Pacific, and June 1, 1965, in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1965. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical ...
* 1965 Pacific typhoon season
The 1965 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1965, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year whe ...
* Australian cyclone seasons: 1964–65, 1965–66
* South Pacific cyclone seasons: 1964–65, 1965–66
* South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons: 1964–65, 1965–66
References
External links
India Meteorological DepartmentJoint Typhoon Warning Center
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Tropical cyclones in India
1965 in India