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NORTH ATLANTIC · SEASON MAP

1960 Atlantic hurricane season

Every recorded track, mapped · 8 storms · 22 Jun 1960–26 Sept 1960

ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGY72.9
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1960 Atlantic hurricane season: every recorded storm trackRecorded tracks of all 8 storms, colored by the wind category at each observation. Hover or focus a storm in the table to highlight its track.UNITED STATESCANADAMEXICOCUBABRAZILAFRICAEUROPECHINAJAPANINDIAGulf of MexicoAtlantic OceanPacific OceanArabian SeaBay of BengalUnnamed: 22 Jun–28 Jun, peak 50 kt, Tropical stormAbby: 9 Jul–17 Jul, peak 70 kt, Category 1Brenda: 27 Jul–31 Jul, peak 60 kt, Tropical stormCleo: 17 Aug–21 Aug, peak 75 kt, Category 1Donna: 29 Aug–13 Sep, peak 125 kt, Category 4Unnamed: 1 Sep–3 Sep, peak 40 kt, Tropical stormEthel: 12 Sep–17 Sep, peak 100 kt, Category 3Florence: 17 Sep–26 Sep, peak 50 kt, Tropical storm

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Whole season

DepressionTropical stormCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 5Post-tropical
Every storm of the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season. Column headers sort the list.
Unnamed–50Tropical storm10001,540
Abby–70Cat 19952,550
Brenda–60Tropical storm9914,220
Cleo–75Cat 19951,410
Donna–125Cat 49306,100
Unnamed–40Tropical storm—700
Ethel–100Cat 39741,000
Florence–50Tropical storm10002,060

8 storms with an IBTrACS 1960 hurricane season record. Tracks are the archived center positions, first observation 22 Jun 1960, last 26 Sept 1960.

Tropical storms8

Tropical-stage US-agency wind of 34 kt or more

Hurricanes4

64 kt or more, one-minute sustained

Major (Category 3+)2

96 kt or more, Saffir–Simpson scale

Category 50

137 kt or more at any tropical-stage observation

Strongest stormDonna

125 kt · 144 mph / 232 km/h

Lowest pressure930 hPa

Donna, 10 Sept 1960

Longest track record15.8 days

Donna, full archive record

Storms without US-agency wind0

Mapped, but outside the counts above

QUICK ANSWERS

The 1960 season in brief

How many hurricanes were there in the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season?

The archive records 4 hurricanes (one-minute winds of 64 kt or more) among 8 tropical storms, with 2 major hurricanes reaching 96 kt. Counts use US-agency winds during the tropical stage.

What was the strongest storm of the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season?

Donna, with a peak one-minute sustained wind of 125 kt (Category 4) on 7 Sept 1960, 00:00 UTC and a minimum central pressure of 930 hPa.

How many Category 5 storms were there in 1960?

None. No storm in the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season reached Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson one-minute wind scale in the archive.

When did the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season start and end?

The first tropical-stage observation is on 22 Jun 1960 and the last on 26 Sept 1960, from 8 tracked storms in the archive.

What was the first hurricane of the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season?

Abby, which reached hurricane strength (64 kt) on 15 Jul 1960, 03:00 UTC.

METHODOLOGY

Data sources and limitations

The map and totals are generated from NOAA’s IBTrACS v04r01 archive. A storm belongs to this page when the archive lists it in the North Atlantic basin for the 1960 season, so a December storm whose track ends in January stays with its season. Storms that cross between basins appear on the page of their archive basin only.

Counts use US-agency one-minute winds during the tropical stage: 34 kt for a tropical storm, 64 kt for hurricane strength and 96 kt for major intensity, on the Saffir–Simpson scale in every basin. Local agencies classify storms differently, and official season summaries can differ from the archive. Accumulated cyclone energy sums squared winds at six-hourly synoptic times, counting observations in the calendar year. Storms with no US-agency wind are mapped but cannot enter the counts.

The map frame is the same for every North Atlantic season, so a track that leaves it is cut at the edge. Lines show each storm’s center, not its size, rainfall or flood extent. Coastlines use Natural Earth’s 1:10m land data.

Archive retrieved

NOAA IBTrACS archive · Field documentation

Sources & methodology