The 1960 season

Tropical Storm Rose (1960)

Tropical Storm Rose peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between July 24, 1960 and July 31, 1960, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Rose, 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
July 24, 1960 to July 31, 1960
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 342 km (213 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.1
Identifier
WP071960

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
Jul 24, 12:0022.0N 154.0E1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 18:0022.3N 152.7E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 00:0022.7N 152.0E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 06:0023.0N 151.0E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0023.4N 150.0E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0023.7N 148.9E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0026.0N 147.5E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0027.5N 146.0E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0029.8N 145.6E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0031.2N 144.5E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0031.6N 145.3E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0032.2N 144.9E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0035.0N 146.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0036.8N 147.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0036.4N 147.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0036.4N 147.8E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0037.2N 150.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0038.0N 152.1E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0038.8N 154.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0040.0N 155.1E1000 mbExtratropical
Jul 29, 12:0041.4N 156.2E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 29, 18:0043.0N 157.3E992 mbExtratropical
Jul 30, 00:0044.0N 158.9E990 mbExtratropical
Jul 30, 06:0045.0N 159.5E990 mbExtratropical
Jul 30, 12:0047.0N 160.0E990 mbExtratropical
Jul 30, 18:0049.0N 163.0E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 31, 00:0051.0N 168.0E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 31, 06:0052.0N 175.0E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 31, 12:0053.0N 180.0E998 mbExtratropical
Jul 31, 18:0055.0N 187.0EExtratropical

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.