The 1960 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1960)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Pacific between December 19, 1959 and December 31, 1959, with a lowest pressure of 988 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, 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
South Pacific
Dates
December 19, 1959 to December 31, 1959
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
988 mb (29.18 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH041960

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
Dec 19, 12:005.8S 156.1ETropical storm
Dec 19, 18:005.9S 156.4ETropical storm
Dec 20, 00:006.2S 156.5ETropical storm
Dec 20, 06:006.6S 156.5ETropical storm
Dec 20, 12:007.0S 156.4ETropical storm
Dec 20, 18:007.3S 156.1ETropical storm
Dec 21, 00:007.7S 155.8ETropical storm
Dec 21, 06:008.3S 155.5ETropical storm
Dec 21, 12:008.8S 155.4ETropical storm
Dec 21, 18:008.9S 156.1ETropical storm
Dec 22, 00:009.1S 156.8ETropical storm
Dec 22, 06:009.5S 157.1ETropical storm
Dec 22, 12:009.9S 157.3ETropical storm
Dec 22, 18:0010.5S 156.9ETropical storm
Dec 23, 00:0011.1S 156.9ETropical storm
Dec 23, 06:0011.5S 157.6ETropical storm
Dec 23, 12:0012.0S 158.2ETropical storm
Dec 23, 18:0012.4S 158.8ETropical storm
Dec 24, 00:0012.9S 159.4ETropical storm
Dec 24, 06:0013.1S 159.9ETropical storm
Dec 24, 12:0013.3S 160.4ETropical storm
Dec 24, 18:0013.5S 160.8ETropical storm
Dec 25, 00:0013.7S 161.3ETropical storm
Dec 25, 06:0013.9S 161.7ETropical storm
Dec 25, 12:0014.1S 162.1ETropical storm
Dec 25, 18:0014.4S 162.4ETropical storm
Dec 26, 00:0014.7S 162.7ETropical storm
Dec 26, 06:0015.0S 163.0ETropical storm
Dec 26, 12:0015.4S 163.4ETropical storm
Dec 26, 18:0015.8S 163.7ETropical storm
Dec 27, 00:0016.4S 163.9ETropical storm
Dec 27, 06:0016.9S 164.1ETropical storm
Dec 27, 12:0017.5S 164.3ETropical storm
Dec 27, 18:0017.9S 164.7ETropical storm
Dec 28, 00:0019.6S 164.5ETropical storm
Dec 28, 06:0019.4S 166.0ETropical storm
Dec 28, 12:0019.2S 167.5ETropical storm
Dec 28, 18:0019.2S 169.0ETropical storm
Dec 29, 00:0019.3S 170.5ETropical storm
Dec 29, 06:0019.2S 173.2ETropical storm
Dec 29, 12:0019.0S 176.3ETropical storm
Dec 29, 18:0019.7S 178.2ETropical storm
Dec 30, 00:0021.5S 179.8WTropical storm
Dec 30, 06:0024.2S 176.9WTropical storm
Dec 30, 12:0027.0S 174.0WTropical storm
Dec 30, 18:0029.2S 171.9WTropical storm
Dec 31, 00:0031.2S 170.4WTropical storm

Other South 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.