The 1960 season

Tropical Storm Gloria (1960)

Tropical Storm Gloria peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between August 29, 1960 and September 5, 1960, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Gloria. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
August 29, 1960 to September 5, 1960
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Identifier
WP181960

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
Aug 29, 18:0010.8N 137.3EDisturbance
Aug 30, 00:0011.5N 137.3EDisturbance
Aug 30, 06:0012.2N 136.8EDisturbance
Aug 30, 12:0011.5N 134.5E25 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0011.6N 133.7E25 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0011.7N 133.2E25 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0011.8N 132.5E30 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0011.9N 131.8E35 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0012.0N 131.1E45 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0012.1N 129.7E40 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0012.3N 127.7E35 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0013.0N 125.4E35 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0013.8N 123.5E35 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0014.9N 121.2E30 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0015.7N 119.9E35 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0016.0N 118.8E40 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0016.3N 117.8E35 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0016.7N 116.3E30 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0016.8N 114.9E30 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0016.8N 113.2E30 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0016.8N 111.9E30 ktTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0016.7N 110.5E30 ktMixed
Sep 4, 06:0016.4N 109.0EDisturbance
Sep 4, 12:0017.0N 108.1EDisturbance
Sep 4, 18:0017.7N 107.2EDisturbance
Sep 5, 00:0018.8N 106.3EDisturbance
Sep 5, 06:0019.6N 105.4EDisturbance

Other Western Pacific storms of 1960

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.