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EASTERN PACIFIC · SEASON MAP

1960 Pacific hurricane season

Every recorded track, mapped · 8 storms · 9 Jun 1960–23 Oct 1960

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1960 Pacific 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 STATESMEXICOCUBACHINAJAPANPHILIPPINESINDIAGulf of MexicoAtlantic OceanPacific OceanPhilippine SeaArabian SeaBay of BengalAnnette: 9 Jun–12 Jun, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormBonny: 22 Jun–26 Jun, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormCeleste: 20 Jul–22 Jul, peak 75 kt, Category 1Diana: 17 Aug–20 Aug, peak 75 kt, Category 1Estelle: 29 Aug–9 Sep, peak 75 kt, Category 1Fernanda: 3 Sep–8 Sep, peak 75 kt, Category 1Unnamed: 4 Oct–4 Oct, peak 26 kt, Tropical depressionHyacinth: 21 Oct–23 Oct, peak 75 kt, Category 1

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Whole season

DepressionTropical stormCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 5Post-tropical
Every storm of the 1960 Pacific hurricane season. Column headers sort the list.
Annette–45Tropical storm—860
Bonny–45Tropical storm—640
Celeste–75Cat 1—820
Diana–75Cat 19871,150
Estelle–75Cat 1—2,270
Fernanda–75Cat 1—1,130
Unnamed–26Tropical depression—100
Hyacinth–75Cat 1—380

8 storms with an IBTrACS 1960 hurricane season record. Tracks are the archived center positions, first observation 9 Jun 1960, last 23 Oct 1960.

Tropical storms7

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

Hurricanes5

64 kt or more, one-minute sustained

Major (Category 3+)0

96 kt or more, Saffir–Simpson scale

Category 50

137 kt or more at any tropical-stage observation

Strongest stormCeleste

75 kt · 86 mph / 139 km/h

Lowest pressure987 hPa

Diana, 18 Aug 1960

Longest track record11.5 days

Estelle, 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 Pacific hurricane season?

The archive records 5 hurricanes (one-minute winds of 64 kt or more) among 7 tropical storms, with 0 major hurricanes reaching 96 kt. Counts use US-agency winds during the tropical stage.

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

Celeste, with a peak one-minute sustained wind of 75 kt (Category 1) on 20 Jul 1960, 00:00 UTC.

How many Category 5 storms were there in 1960?

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

When did the 1960 Pacific hurricane season start and end?

The first tropical-stage observation is on 9 Jun 1960 and the last on 23 Oct 1960, from 8 tracked storms in the archive.

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

Celeste, which reached hurricane strength (64 kt) on 20 Jul 1960, 00:00 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 Eastern Pacific 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 Eastern Pacific 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