The 1961 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1961)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Indian between May 22, 1961 and May 25, 1961, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Unnamed tropical depression. 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
North Indian
Dates
May 22, 1961 to May 25, 1961
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
IO031961

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
May 22, 18:0013.5N 72.7ETropical storm
May 23, 00:0013.9N 72.9ETropical storm
May 23, 06:0014.1N 73.1ETropical storm
May 23, 12:0014.3N 73.2ETropical storm
May 23, 18:0014.5N 73.2ETropical storm
May 24, 00:0014.8N 73.3ETropical storm
May 24, 06:0015.3N 73.3ETropical storm
May 24, 12:0016.1N 73.3ETropical storm
May 24, 18:0016.7N 73.5ETropical storm
May 25, 00:0017.2N 74.7ETropical storm

Other North 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.