The 1960 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1960)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Pacific between May 24, 1960 and May 29, 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 Pacific
Dates
May 24, 1960 to May 29, 1960
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 196 km (122 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH241960

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 24, 12:0016.9S 153.2ETropical storm
May 24, 18:0017.2S 153.0ETropical storm
May 25, 00:0018.0S 152.8ETropical storm
May 25, 06:0019.2S 152.5ETropical storm
May 25, 12:0020.5S 152.1ETropical storm
May 25, 18:0021.7S 152.5ETropical storm
May 26, 00:0022.9S 153.8ETropical storm
May 26, 06:0023.6S 155.9ETropical storm
May 26, 12:0024.2S 158.0ETropical storm
May 26, 18:0025.5S 159.8ETropical storm
May 27, 00:0026.7S 160.9ETropical storm
May 27, 06:0027.2S 161.1ETropical storm
May 27, 12:0027.7S 161.2ETropical storm
May 27, 18:0028.2S 161.3ETropical storm
May 28, 00:0028.8S 161.4ETropical storm
May 28, 06:0030.2S 161.7ETropical storm
May 28, 12:0032.0S 162.0ETropical storm
May 28, 18:0033.4S 162.3ETropical storm
May 29, 00:0034.6S 162.6ETropical 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.