The 1961 season

Tropical Depression Doris (1961)

Tropical Depression Doris peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between January 23, 1961 and February 2, 1961.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Depression Doris. 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 23, 1961 to February 2, 1961
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 865 km (537 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH141961

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 23, 18:0010.2S 57.3ETropical storm
Jan 24, 00:0010.1S 58.1ETropical storm
Jan 24, 06:0010.0S 59.0ETropical storm
Jan 24, 12:0010.0S 60.1ETropical storm
Jan 24, 18:0010.2S 61.2ETropical storm
Jan 25, 00:0010.5S 62.1ETropical storm
Jan 25, 06:0010.9S 62.9ETropical storm
Jan 25, 12:0011.4S 63.5ETropical storm
Jan 25, 18:0011.9S 64.0ETropical storm
Jan 26, 00:0011.8S 65.2ETropical storm
Jan 26, 06:0011.6S 66.1ETropical storm
Jan 26, 12:0012.0S 66.2ETropical storm
Jan 26, 18:0012.4S 66.2ETropical storm
Jan 27, 00:0012.7S 66.3ETropical storm
Jan 27, 06:0013.0S 66.4ETropical storm
Jan 27, 12:0013.4S 66.6ETropical storm
Jan 27, 18:0013.8S 66.9ETropical storm
Jan 28, 00:0014.1S 67.1ETropical storm
Jan 28, 06:0014.4S 67.3ETropical storm
Jan 28, 12:0015.0S 67.7ETropical storm
Jan 28, 18:0015.6S 68.2ETropical storm
Jan 29, 00:0016.2S 68.5ETropical storm
Jan 29, 06:0016.7S 68.8ETropical storm
Jan 29, 12:0017.1S 69.0ETropical storm
Jan 29, 18:0017.5S 69.2ETropical storm
Jan 30, 00:0017.9S 69.4ETropical storm
Jan 30, 06:0018.3S 69.7ETropical storm
Jan 30, 12:0018.7S 70.0ETropical storm
Jan 30, 18:0019.2S 70.3ETropical storm
Jan 31, 00:0019.7S 70.6ETropical storm
Jan 31, 06:0020.1S 70.9ETropical storm
Jan 31, 12:0020.4S 71.2ETropical storm
Jan 31, 18:0020.7S 71.4ETropical storm
Feb 1, 00:0021.0S 71.6ETropical storm
Feb 1, 06:0021.3S 71.9ETropical storm
Feb 1, 12:0021.8S 72.4ETropical storm
Feb 1, 18:0022.4S 73.0ETropical storm
Feb 2, 00:0022.9S 73.6ETropical storm
Feb 2, 06:0023.4S 74.3ETropical storm

Other South Indian 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.