The 1960 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1960)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between January 22, 1960 and January 29, 1960, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb.

Radar

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

The storm

Basin
South Indian
Dates
January 22, 1960 to January 29, 1960
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 55 km (34 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH101960

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
Jan 22, 06:0014.2S 123.7ENot reported
Jan 22, 12:0013.7S 123.8ENot reported
Jan 22, 18:0013.3S 124.2ETropical storm
Jan 23, 00:0014.1S 124.4ETropical storm
Jan 23, 06:0014.1S 125.1ETropical storm
Jan 23, 12:0014.0S 125.4ETropical storm
Jan 23, 18:0013.5S 125.4ETropical storm
Jan 24, 00:0013.1S 125.0ETropical storm
Jan 24, 06:0012.9S 124.3ETropical storm
Jan 24, 12:0013.3S 123.7E980 mbTropical storm
Jan 24, 18:0014.1S 123.3ETropical storm
Jan 25, 00:0015.0S 122.8ETropical storm
Jan 25, 06:0015.9S 122.1ETropical storm
Jan 25, 12:0016.8S 121.1ETropical storm
Jan 25, 18:0017.5S 120.0ETropical storm
Jan 26, 00:0018.0S 118.9ETropical storm
Jan 26, 06:0018.4S 117.8ETropical storm
Jan 26, 12:0018.7S 116.7ETropical storm
Jan 26, 18:0019.0S 115.2ETropical storm
Jan 27, 00:0019.0S 114.2ETropical storm
Jan 27, 06:0018.9S 114.0ETropical storm
Jan 27, 12:0018.9S 113.9ETropical storm
Jan 27, 18:0018.8S 113.5ETropical storm
Jan 28, 00:0018.8S 113.3ETropical storm
Jan 28, 06:0018.8S 113.1ETropical storm
Jan 28, 12:0018.9S 113.0ETropical storm
Jan 28, 18:0019.0S 112.9ETropical storm
Jan 29, 00:0019.2S 112.8ETropical storm
Jan 29, 06:0019.6S 112.9ETropical storm
Jan 29, 12:0019.8S 113.3ETropical storm
Jan 29, 18:0020.0S 113.7ETropical storm

Other South 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.