The 1961 season

Tropical Depression Wilda (1961)

Tropical Depression Wilda peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between October 5, 1961 and October 13, 1961, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Depression Wilda. 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
October 5, 1961 to October 13, 1961
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
WP301961

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
Oct 5, 18:0017.3N 119.2E1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 00:0018.0N 117.7E1007 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 06:0017.0N 115.5E1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 12:0016.0N 115.3E1008 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 18:0015.5N 115.0E1007 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 00:0015.4N 114.4E1008 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 06:0014.4N 113.2E1007 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 12:0015.2N 112.0E1007 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 18:0015.5N 111.3E1008 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 00:0015.4N 111.5E1008 mbMixed
Oct 8, 06:0015.7N 113.3E1006 mbMixed
Oct 8, 12:0015.4N 114.0E1006 mbMixed
Oct 8, 18:0015.6N 114.0E1006 mbMixed
Oct 9, 00:0015.6N 114.7E1006 mbMixed
Oct 9, 06:0015.1N 114.6E1006 mbMixed
Oct 9, 12:0014.1N 114.3E1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0014.1N 114.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0013.5N 114.9E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0013.7N 116.4E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0013.8N 117.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0013.1N 117.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0012.9N 116.4E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0013.2N 116.4E994 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0013.4N 115.9E994 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0013.8N 115.4E992 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0014.0N 114.4E990 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0013.5N 112.8E990 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0013.5N 111.5E990 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0013.8N 110.2E990 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0014.3N 109.1E994 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0013.9N 107.6E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0014.8N 107.8EDisturbance

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.