The 1960 season

Typhoon Trix (1960)

Typhoon Trix reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between August 2, 1960 and August 14, 1960, with a lowest pressure of 930 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Trix, 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.

Open the live map with storms, cones and warnings

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
August 2, 1960 to August 14, 1960
Peak strength
Category 4, 125 kt (144 mph)
Lowest pressure
930 mb (27.46 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
15.7
Identifier
WP091960

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 2, 06:0010.6N 137.8E1006 mbMixed
Aug 2, 12:0010.8N 137.0E1008 mbMixed
Aug 2, 18:0011.0N 136.0E1006 mbMixed
Aug 3, 00:0011.6N 135.4E1006 mbMixed
Aug 3, 06:0012.2N 135.2E1006 mbMixed
Aug 3, 12:0012.9N 135.4E1006 mbMixed
Aug 3, 18:0013.5N 135.5E1004 mbMixed
Aug 4, 00:0015.0N 135.8E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 06:0015.2N 135.6E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 12:0015.6N 135.2E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 18:0016.1N 134.8E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 00:0016.6N 134.5E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 06:0017.2N 134.2E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 12:0017.9N 133.8E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 18:0018.8N 133.4E80 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 00:0019.8N 132.9E100 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 06:0020.8N 132.3E105 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 12:0021.7N 131.6E120 kt935 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 18:0022.9N 130.4E125 kt935 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 00:0023.9N 128.9E125 kt930 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 06:0024.8N 127.1E120 kt930 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 12:0025.2N 124.9E120 kt930 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 18:0025.3N 123.2E100 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 00:0025.2N 121.9E85 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 06:0025.1N 120.6E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 12:0024.7N 119.5E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 18:0024.3N 118.5E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 00:0024.1N 117.5E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 06:0024.0N 116.7E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0024.0N 115.9E25 kt990 mbMixed
Aug 9, 18:0024.0N 115.2E20 kt992 mbMixed
Aug 10, 00:0024.0N 114.5E20 kt994 mbMixed
Aug 10, 06:0023.5N 113.8E994 mbMixed
Aug 10, 12:0023.2N 113.1E994 mbMixed
Aug 10, 18:0023.0N 112.5E994 mbMixed
Aug 11, 00:0022.8N 112.0E994 mbMixed
Aug 11, 06:0022.5N 111.4E994 mbMixed
Aug 11, 12:0022.3N 110.8E994 mbMixed
Aug 11, 18:0021.9N 110.0E996 mbMixed
Aug 12, 00:0021.8N 109.5E996 mbMixed
Aug 12, 06:0021.7N 109.0E996 mbMixed
Aug 12, 12:0021.6N 108.7E998 mbMixed
Aug 12, 18:0021.3N 108.1E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 00:0021.0N 107.6E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 06:0020.5N 107.0ETropical storm
Aug 13, 12:0020.1N 106.0ETropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0019.9N 105.1EDisturbance
Aug 14, 00:0019.8N 104.0EDisturbance

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.