Typhoon Sally (known as Typhoon Aring in the Philippines) was a powerful tropical cyclone that brought widespread impacts during its week-long trek across the western Pacific in September 1964. It was the most intense typhoon of the 1964 Pacific typhoon season and among the strongest typhoons ever recorded, with one-minute maximum sustained winds of 315 km/h (196 mph) as estimated by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Sally first became a tropical cyclone near the Marshall Islands on September 3, organizing into a tropical depression and then a tropical storm later that day. On September 4, Sally intensified into a typhoon and struck southern Guam the next day. Widespread agricultural damage occurred in the island's southern regions, with the banana crop suffering the costliest losses; the