The 1961 season

Typhoon June (1961)

Typhoon June reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between August 1, 1961 and August 8, 1961, with a lowest pressure of 960 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon June. 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
Western Pacific
Dates
August 1, 1961 to August 8, 1961
Peak strength
Category 2, 95 kt (109 mph)
Lowest pressure
960 mb (28.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
12.5
Identifier
WP141961

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
Aug 1, 00:0011.6N 134.0E1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0011.8N 133.6E50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0012.1N 133.1E50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0012.5N 132.6E60 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0013.1N 132.2E60 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0013.9N 131.7E70 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 12:0014.6N 131.0E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0015.0N 130.2E70 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:0015.4N 129.3E75 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 06:0015.8N 128.5E70 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 12:0016.6N 128.0E70 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 18:0017.3N 127.5E70 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 00:0017.6N 126.5E70 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 06:0017.7N 125.7E70 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 12:0018.0N 125.3E70 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 18:0018.3N 124.8E70 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 00:0018.6N 124.4E70 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 06:0019.2N 123.9E70 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 12:0019.8N 123.4E70 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 18:0020.5N 122.9E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 00:0021.1N 122.3E85 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 06:0021.7N 121.8E95 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 12:0022.2N 121.6E95 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 18:0022.7N 121.5E80 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 00:0023.0N 121.5E60 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 06:0023.5N 121.4E40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 12:0024.2N 121.2E25 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 18:0024.8N 120.0E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 00:0025.1N 119.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 06:0025.4N 118.6E20 kt1000 mbMixed
Aug 8, 12:0025.6N 118.4E10 ktTropical storm

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.