The 1960 season

Typhoon Lola (1960)

Typhoon Lola reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between October 8, 1960 and October 17, 1960, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Lola. 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
October 8, 1960 to October 17, 1960
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
11.5
Identifier
WP231960

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
Oct 8, 00:0020.8N 131.6E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 06:0021.4N 131.3E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 12:0021.8N 130.8E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 18:0022.1N 130.0E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 00:0022.2N 129.5E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 06:0022.2N 129.0E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 12:0022.0N 128.6E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0021.7N 128.4E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0021.2N 128.6E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0020.6N 128.8E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0019.9N 128.8E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0018.9N 128.3E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0018.0N 127.0E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0016.6N 126.4E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0015.8N 125.9E75 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0015.6N 125.6E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0015.4N 125.2E80 kt975 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0015.3N 124.8E80 kt970 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0015.3N 124.2E80 kt975 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0015.5N 123.8E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0015.7N 123.3E75 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0015.8N 122.1E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0015.5N 120.4E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0015.5N 120.0E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0015.8N 119.4E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0016.2N 118.5E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 12:0016.7N 117.3E70 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 18:0016.7N 115.9E70 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 00:0016.4N 114.4E70 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 06:0016.4N 113.3E70 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 12:0016.6N 112.6E60 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 18:0016.8N 111.9E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 00:0017.1N 111.0E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 06:0017.5N 110.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 12:0017.8N 109.0E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 18:0018.2N 107.7E35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 00:0018.4N 106.5E30 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 06:0018.6N 105.2E30 ktMixed

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.