The 1961 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1961)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between July 15, 1960 and July 21, 1960, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb.

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
South Indian
Dates
July 15, 1960 to July 21, 1960
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 378 km (235 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH011961

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
Jul 15, 00:005.0S 98.0ETropical storm
Jul 15, 06:005.5S 97.5ETropical storm
Jul 15, 12:006.0S 97.0ETropical storm
Jul 15, 18:006.6S 96.4ETropical storm
Jul 16, 00:007.2S 95.8ETropical storm
Jul 16, 06:007.8S 95.1ETropical storm
Jul 16, 12:008.5S 94.5ETropical storm
Jul 16, 18:009.3S 93.9ETropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0010.2S 93.4ETropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0011.2S 92.9ETropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0012.5S 92.5ETropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0014.8S 92.5ETropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0017.3S 93.0E999 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0019.1S 93.5ETropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0021.0S 94.5ETropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0023.4S 96.1ETropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0025.8S 97.8E995 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 06:0028.0S 99.3ETropical storm
Jul 19, 12:0030.0S 101.0ETropical storm
Jul 19, 18:0031.6S 103.1ETropical storm
Jul 20, 00:0033.0S 105.3E995 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 06:0034.3S 107.4ETropical storm
Jul 20, 12:0035.5S 109.5ETropical storm
Jul 20, 18:0036.5S 111.4ETropical storm
Jul 21, 00:0037.4S 113.0E995 mbTropical 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.