The 1961 season

Tropical Depression Barbarine (1961)

Tropical Depression Barbarine peaked at unknown kt in the South Pacific between January 6, 1961 and January 24, 1961, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Barbarine, 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
South Pacific
Dates
January 6, 1961 to January 24, 1961
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH121961

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 6, 00:0011.4S 162.1ETropical storm
Jan 6, 06:0011.4S 161.8ETropical storm
Jan 6, 12:0011.4S 161.4ETropical storm
Jan 6, 18:0011.4S 161.0ETropical storm
Jan 7, 00:0011.5S 160.5ETropical storm
Jan 7, 06:0011.7S 160.2ETropical storm
Jan 7, 12:0012.1S 160.0ETropical storm
Jan 7, 18:0012.5S 159.9ETropical storm
Jan 8, 00:0013.0S 160.0ETropical storm
Jan 8, 06:0013.4S 160.1ETropical storm
Jan 8, 12:0013.9S 160.3ETropical storm
Jan 8, 18:0014.1S 160.6ETropical storm
Jan 9, 00:0014.3S 160.9ETropical storm
Jan 9, 06:0014.6S 161.4ETropical storm
Jan 9, 12:0015.0S 162.0ETropical storm
Jan 9, 18:0015.1S 162.8ETropical storm
Jan 10, 00:0015.5S 163.7ETropical storm
Jan 10, 06:0016.6S 164.3ETropical storm
Jan 10, 12:0018.0S 165.0ETropical storm
Jan 10, 18:0019.1S 166.1ETropical storm
Jan 11, 00:0020.3S 167.3ETropical storm
Jan 11, 06:0021.6S 168.1ETropical storm
Jan 11, 12:0023.0S 168.9ETropical storm
Jan 11, 18:0024.2S 169.7ETropical storm
Jan 12, 00:0025.5S 170.6ETropical storm
Jan 12, 06:0026.7S 171.4ETropical storm
Jan 12, 12:0028.0S 172.3ETropical storm
Jan 12, 18:0029.3S 173.2ETropical storm
Jan 13, 00:0030.4S 173.8ETropical storm
Jan 13, 06:0031.1S 174.2ETropical storm
Jan 13, 12:0031.5S 174.6ETropical storm
Jan 13, 18:0031.9S 175.0ETropical storm
Jan 14, 00:0032.3S 175.4ETropical storm
Jan 14, 06:0032.9S 176.5ETropical storm
Jan 14, 12:0033.5S 178.0ETropical storm
Jan 14, 18:0032.9S 179.0ETropical storm
Jan 15, 00:0032.1S 179.3ETropical storm
Jan 15, 06:0031.8S 178.7ETropical storm
Jan 15, 12:0031.7S 178.0ETropical storm
Jan 15, 18:0031.9S 177.6ETropical storm
Jan 16, 00:0032.6S 177.1ETropical storm
Jan 16, 06:0033.8S 176.2ETropical storm
Jan 16, 12:0035.0S 175.2ETropical storm
Jan 16, 18:0035.9S 174.2ETropical storm
Jan 17, 00:0036.7S 173.0ETropical storm
Jan 17, 06:0038.0S 171.0ETropical storm
Jan 17, 12:0039.2S 168.4ETropical storm
Jan 17, 18:0039.5S 165.3ETropical storm
Jan 18, 00:0039.0S 162.3ETropical storm
Jan 18, 06:0038.2S 161.1ETropical storm
Jan 18, 12:0037.4S 161.2ETropical storm
Jan 18, 18:0036.3S 161.8ETropical storm
Jan 19, 00:0035.5S 162.9ETropical storm
Jan 19, 06:0035.9S 164.5ETropical storm
Jan 19, 12:0036.6S 166.0ETropical storm
Jan 19, 18:0037.3S 167.4ETropical storm
Jan 20, 00:0037.9S 168.5ETropical storm
Jan 20, 06:0038.2S 169.3ETropical storm
Jan 20, 12:0038.5S 170.0ETropical storm
Jan 20, 18:0038.8S 170.5ETropical storm
Jan 21, 00:0039.0S 171.1ETropical storm
Jan 21, 06:0039.1S 171.8ETropical storm
Jan 21, 12:0039.2S 172.5ETropical storm
Jan 21, 18:0039.3S 173.0ETropical storm
Jan 22, 00:0039.5S 173.6ETropical storm
Jan 22, 06:0039.7S 175.1ETropical storm
Jan 22, 12:0040.0S 177.0ETropical storm
Jan 22, 18:0040.2S 179.1ETropical storm
Jan 23, 00:0040.5S 179.2WTropical storm
Jan 23, 06:0040.9S 178.0WTropical storm
Jan 23, 12:0041.3S 176.8WTropical storm
Jan 23, 18:0041.7S 175.6WTropical storm
Jan 24, 00:0042.0S 174.4WTropical storm

Other South 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.