The 1961 season

Tropical Storm Doris (1961)

Tropical Storm Doris peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between June 21, 1961 and July 10, 1961, with a lowest pressure of 986 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Doris, 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
June 21, 1961 to July 10, 1961
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
986 mb (29.12 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.9
Identifier
WP081961

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
Jun 21, 18:009.0N 139.0EDisturbance
Jun 22, 00:009.6N 139.5EDisturbance
Jun 22, 06:0010.5N 140.0EDisturbance
Jun 22, 12:0011.3N 139.2EDisturbance
Jun 22, 18:0011.7N 138.1EDisturbance
Jun 23, 00:0012.0N 137.0EDisturbance
Jun 23, 06:0014.0N 137.6E30 ktMixed
Jun 23, 12:0015.2N 137.2E30 ktMixed
Jun 23, 18:0016.4N 136.6E30 ktMixed
Jun 24, 00:0017.6N 136.0E30 ktTropical storm
Jun 24, 06:0018.6N 135.2E25 ktTropical storm
Jun 24, 12:0019.5N 134.4E25 ktTropical storm
Jun 24, 18:0020.1N 133.4E30 ktMixed
Jun 25, 00:0020.2N 132.2E30 ktMixed
Jun 25, 06:0020.0N 131.3E30 ktMixed
Jun 25, 12:0020.0N 130.6E25 ktMixed
Jun 25, 18:0020.4N 130.3E25 ktMixed
Jun 26, 00:0021.3N 130.7E20 ktMixed
Jun 26, 06:0022.3N 131.5E20 ktMixed
Jun 26, 12:0023.1N 132.1E20 ktMixed
Jun 26, 18:0022.6N 132.5E25 ktMixed
Jun 27, 00:0022.2N 132.0E25 ktMixed
Jun 27, 06:0022.0N 131.5E25 ktMixed
Jun 27, 12:0022.0N 131.0E20 ktMixed
Jun 27, 18:0021.8N 130.2E20 kt1000 mbMixed
Jun 28, 00:0021.4N 129.5E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 06:0021.4N 129.0E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 12:0021.3N 128.3E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 18:0021.3N 127.8E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 00:0021.4N 127.0E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 06:0021.5N 126.5E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 12:0021.6N 125.8E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 18:0021.6N 125.3E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 00:0021.7N 125.1E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 06:0021.6N 124.4E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 12:0021.7N 123.5E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 18:0021.6N 122.3E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 00:0021.4N 120.8E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 06:0021.9N 118.0E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 12:0022.3N 117.3E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 18:0022.6N 116.7E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 00:0023.2N 116.0E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 06:0023.5N 114.6E25 kt992 mbMixed
Jul 2, 12:0024.0N 114.2E992 mbMixed
Jul 2, 18:0025.4N 112.5E995 mbMixed
Jul 3, 00:0027.4N 110.5E996 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 06:0029.1N 109.1E996 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 12:0030.4N 108.2E996 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 18:0031.0N 107.7E997 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 00:0031.9N 107.7E997 mbExtratropical
Jul 4, 06:0032.9N 107.8E997 mbExtratropical
Jul 4, 12:0033.6N 110.1E997 mbExtratropical
Jul 4, 18:0034.0N 112.5E997 mbExtratropical
Jul 5, 00:0035.0N 114.1E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 5, 06:0036.0N 115.5E994 mbExtratropical
Jul 5, 12:0037.0N 117.0E992 mbExtratropical
Jul 5, 18:0037.6N 118.1E990 mbExtratropical
Jul 6, 00:0038.0N 120.0E986 mbExtratropical
Jul 6, 06:0039.0N 124.9E988 mbExtratropical
Jul 6, 12:0040.0N 129.4E988 mbExtratropical
Jul 6, 18:0041.9N 132.0E988 mbExtratropical
Jul 7, 00:0043.7N 134.4E988 mbExtratropical
Jul 7, 06:0045.0N 137.5E988 mbExtratropical
Jul 7, 12:0046.0N 140.9E988 mbExtratropical
Jul 7, 18:0049.0N 144.0E988 mbExtratropical
Jul 8, 00:0050.8N 145.9E986 mbExtratropical
Jul 8, 06:0051.4N 148.0E986 mbExtratropical
Jul 8, 12:0052.0N 150.0E986 mbExtratropical
Jul 8, 18:0053.0N 151.0E986 mbExtratropical
Jul 9, 00:0054.4N 152.5E990 mbExtratropical
Jul 9, 06:0055.0N 153.0E992 mbExtratropical
Jul 9, 12:0055.8N 153.9E992 mbExtratropical
Jul 9, 18:0056.8N 154.9E994 mbExtratropical
Jul 10, 00:0057.1N 156.0E998 mbExtratropical

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.