Typhoon Alice (1961)

Typhoon Alice reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between May 15, 1961 and May 23, 1961, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall. It killed 4 people, as Wikidata records it.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Alice, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1961 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: Western Pacific
Dates: May 15, 1961 to May 23, 1961
Peak strength: Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure: 980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 5.7
Fastest the center moved: 29 kt (33 mph)
Identifier: WP051961

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Wikidata

4 deathsno damage figure

A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
May 15, 00:00	11.5N 121.0E			Disturbance
May 15, 06:00	12.0N 120.3E			Disturbance
May 15, 12:00	12.5N 119.4E			Disturbance
May 15, 18:00	13.1N 118.4E		1004 mb	Tropical storm
May 16, 00:00	13.6N 117.6E		1004 mb	Tropical storm
May 16, 06:00	14.0N 117.0E		1000 mb	Tropical storm
May 16, 12:00	14.3N 116.5E		1000 mb	Tropical storm
May 16, 18:00	14.7N 115.9E		1000 mb	Tropical storm
May 17, 00:00	15.2N 115.0E	35 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
May 17, 06:00	15.7N 114.7E	40 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
May 17, 12:00	16.2N 114.4E	50 kt	992 mb	Tropical storm
May 17, 18:00	16.7N 114.2E	60 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
May 18, 00:00	17.3N 114.0E	70 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
May 18, 06:00	18.3N 113.8E	70 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
May 18, 12:00	19.5N 113.7E	75 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
May 18, 18:00	20.5N 113.8E	75 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
May 19, 00:00	21.6N 113.9E	70 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
May 19, 06:00	22.5N 114.1E	60 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
May 19, 12:00	23.6N 114.8E	45 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
May 19, 18:00	24.7N 115.8E	40 kt	992 mb	Tropical storm
May 20, 00:00	25.9N 117.5E	40 kt	996 mb	Mixed
May 20, 06:00	27.3N 119.9E	40 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
May 20, 12:00	28.3N 122.5E	45 kt	996 mb	Mixed
May 20, 18:00	29.2N 125.2E	50 kt	996 mb	Mixed
May 21, 00:00	29.6N 128.0E	50 kt	994 mb	Mixed
May 21, 06:00	29.8N 130.8E	40 kt	996 mb	Mixed
May 21, 12:00	29.8N 134.1E	40 kt	996 mb	Mixed
May 21, 18:00	31.0N 137.5E	40 kt	996 mb	Mixed
May 22, 00:00	31.5N 141.0E	30 kt	998 mb	Mixed
May 22, 06:00	32.0N 143.0E	20 kt	1000 mb	Mixed
May 22, 12:00	32.2N 146.5E		1004 mb	Extratropical
May 22, 18:00	33.0N 149.0E		1004 mb	Extratropical
May 23, 00:00	34.0N 151.0E			Extratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 1961

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.