1961 Hurricane Season: Every Storm, Track, Deaths and Damage

Radar

Reflectivity now across the United States. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

Open the live radar with storms, cones and warnings

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

Deaths and damage

1 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 4 people in all.

The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.

North Atlantic

12 storms, 12 at tropical storm strength, 9 hurricanes, 5 major; accumulated cyclone energy 188.9.

Eastern Pacific

11 storms, 10 at tropical storm strength, 2 hurricanes, 0 major; accumulated cyclone energy 25.2.

Western Pacific

54 storms, 27 at tropical storm strength, 20 typhoons, 9 major; accumulated cyclone energy 365.6.

North Indian

17 storms, 0 at tropical storm strength, 0 at hurricane force, 0 major; accumulated cyclone energy 0.0.

South Indian

17 storms, 0 at tropical storm strength, 0 at hurricane force, 0 major; accumulated cyclone energy 0.0.

South Pacific

15 storms, 0 at tropical storm strength, 0 at hurricane force, 0 major; accumulated cyclone energy 0.0.

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.