The 1960 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1960)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between January 28, 1960 and February 1, 1960.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Unnamed tropical depression. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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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 28, 1960 to February 1, 1960
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 109 km (68 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH111960

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 28, 06:0017.8S 42.6ENot reported
Jan 28, 12:0017.8S 42.4ETropical storm
Jan 28, 18:0017.3S 42.6ETropical storm
Jan 29, 00:0017.2S 42.5ETropical storm
Jan 29, 06:0017.5S 42.2ETropical storm
Jan 29, 12:0017.8S 41.9ETropical storm
Jan 29, 18:0018.1S 41.7ETropical storm
Jan 30, 00:0018.4S 41.5ETropical storm
Jan 30, 06:0019.1S 41.0ETropical storm
Jan 30, 12:0019.9S 40.2ETropical storm
Jan 30, 18:0020.3S 39.2ETropical storm
Jan 31, 00:0020.4S 37.9ETropical storm
Jan 31, 06:0020.5S 37.7ENot reported
Jan 31, 12:0020.7S 37.0ENot reported
Jan 31, 18:0020.8S 36.6ENot reported
Feb 1, 00:0020.7S 36.3ENot reported
Feb 1, 06:0020.6S 36.1ENot reported

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.