Tropical Storm Florence (1960)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 17, 1960 to September 26, 1960

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)

Lowest pressure

1000 mb (29.53 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

1.9

Fastest the center moved

13 kt (15 mph)

Identifier

AL071960

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.

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 716 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 15.79 inches (401 mm).

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1960Tropical Storm50 kt · 1000 mb
• Hurricane AbbyNorth Atlantic · 1960Cat 170 kt · 995 mb
• Tropical Storm BrendaNorth Atlantic · 1960Tropical Storm60 kt · 976 mb
• Hurricane CleoNorth Atlantic · 1960Cat 175 kt · 995 mb
• Hurricane DonnaNorth Atlantic · 1960Cat 4125 kt · 930 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1960Tropical Storm40 kt
• Hurricane EthelNorth Atlantic · 1960Cat 3100 kt · 974 mb

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.

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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.