The 1960 season

Tropical Storm Judy (1960)

Tropical Storm Judy peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between September 23, 1960 and October 2, 1960, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Judy, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1960 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
September 23, 1960 to October 2, 1960
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 309 km (192 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Identifier
WP211960

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
Sep 23, 18:0022.0N 153.0E1010 mbMixed
Sep 24, 00:0021.8N 152.0E1010 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0021.7N 151.0E1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0021.9N 150.2E1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0022.3N 149.7E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0022.8N 149.2E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0022.0N 150.5E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0022.7N 150.0E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0023.2N 149.7E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0023.8N 149.2E40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 06:0024.4N 149.1E40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 12:0025.0N 149.0E40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0025.7N 148.6E40 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0026.2N 148.2E35 kt1010 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0026.8N 147.8E30 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0027.5N 147.3E30 kt1010 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0028.0N 146.8E30 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0028.5N 145.9E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0028.9N 145.2E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0029.8N 144.3E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 18:0030.7N 144.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 00:0030.8N 146.2E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0031.6N 146.7E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0032.3N 147.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 18:0033.2N 147.5E990 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0033.9N 147.8E980 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 06:0034.2N 147.2E980 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 12:0034.6N 147.0E980 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 18:0035.5N 147.0E980 mbMixed
Oct 1, 00:0036.5N 147.0E980 mbMixed
Oct 1, 06:0038.0N 147.4E985 mbMixed
Oct 1, 12:0040.3N 148.7E990 mbMixed
Oct 1, 18:0042.5N 150.8E994 mbExtratropical
Oct 2, 00:0044.2N 153.4E996 mbExtratropical
Oct 2, 06:0047.0N 158.0E994 mbExtratropical

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.