The 1960 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1960)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Indian between May 10, 1960 and May 18, 1960.

Radar

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

The storm

Basin
North Indian
Dates
May 10, 1960 to May 18, 1960
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 267 km (166 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
IO021960

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
May 10, 18:008.9N 69.9ETropical storm
May 11, 00:009.1N 69.7ETropical storm
May 11, 06:009.5N 69.3ETropical storm
May 11, 12:0010.1N 68.7ETropical storm
May 11, 18:0010.5N 68.3ETropical storm
May 12, 00:0011.0N 67.8ETropical storm
May 12, 06:0011.4N 67.4ETropical storm
May 12, 12:0011.9N 67.0ETropical storm
May 12, 18:0012.3N 66.6ETropical storm
May 13, 00:0012.6N 66.2ETropical storm
May 13, 06:0013.0N 65.8ETropical storm
May 13, 12:0013.6N 65.3ETropical storm
May 13, 18:0014.0N 64.8ETropical storm
May 14, 00:0014.4N 64.3ETropical storm
May 14, 06:0014.6N 63.8ETropical storm
May 14, 12:0014.8N 63.4ETropical storm
May 14, 18:0014.8N 63.0ETropical storm
May 15, 00:0014.8N 62.7ETropical storm
May 15, 06:0014.8N 62.3ETropical storm
May 15, 12:0014.7N 61.9ETropical storm
May 15, 18:0014.7N 61.5ETropical storm
May 16, 00:0014.6N 61.2ETropical storm
May 16, 06:0014.5N 60.8ETropical storm
May 16, 12:0014.4N 60.4ETropical storm
May 16, 18:0014.3N 60.0ETropical storm
May 17, 00:0014.3N 59.7ETropical storm
May 17, 06:0014.4N 59.1ETropical storm
May 17, 12:0014.5N 58.1ETropical storm
May 17, 18:0014.7N 57.2ETropical storm
May 18, 00:0014.8N 56.4ETropical storm

Other North Indian 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.