1960 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1960 hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1960 and ended on 30 November 1960. These data limits for the amount of time each year, usually from when most tropical cyclones form in the area of the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. The season was below par, overall, were only seven storms.

The most notable storm of the season was Hurricane Donna, which reached the status of Category 5 on the Saffir -Simpson Hurricane Scale and the longest -lasting, major hurricane was on record of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin. It was the worst storm that hit Florida in the last ten years, with six directly caused deaths and 387 million U.S. dollars in damage ( 2.4 billion dollars in 2000 ).

Also Ethel quickly reached Category 5 before he fell before landfall in Mississippi. This refers to the first of only four seasons in which two or more hurricane category 5 were (the others were the seasons 1961, 2005 and 2007 ); it remains the only season with two consecutive hurricanes of Category 5

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Storms

Tropical Storm One

The southern part of a strong, Western lows developed into a tropical depression in the Bay of Campeche on June 22. It moved northwestward, reinforced the next day into a tropical storm and struck 48 km south of Corpus Christi, Texas, with 72 km / h. The storm meandered over South Texas and poured heavy rainfall over the area from. He slowly moved northward and eventually ceased to Illinois on the 29th on. Although he was weak, the storm caused 3.6 million U.S. dollars ( 1960) and 15 deaths of damage.

Hurricane Abby

The tropical depression that became Hurricane Abby was east of the Lesser Antilles on July 10, probably from a tropical wave. When it crossed the islands, reinforced in the night very quickly into a hurricane. Abby remained unclear, as he cruised the Caribbean, and weakened on the 13th again to a tropical storm off. It was clearer than it approaches the coast of British Honduras, now Belize, approached and reached a peak of 137 km / h before he hit the country on the 15th. Abby broke up the next day Mexico after U.S. $ 600,000 (1960 dollars) in damage wreaked and killed on St. Lucia six people.

Tropical Storm Brenda

A weak circulation in the eastern Gulf of Mexico developed on 28 June to a tropical depression. It quickly moved northeastward and was the next day across the Southeast Georgia to a tropical storm. Brenda reached its peak of 97 km / h on the 30th, while the same was the East Coast. He moved northward through New England, where he became extratropical on 31. Brenda caused an estimated 5 million U.S. dollars (1960 ) to damage in Florida.

Hurricane Cleo

The precursor of Hurricane Cleo was a low pressure low, which developed into a tropical storm on August 17. Cleo, a smaller storm was a hurricane on the 18th, when he moved northeastward. After reaching a peak of 145 km / h cooler waters and higher level winds weakened him steadily up to its dissolution on 21

Hurricane Donna

Hurricane Donna was the most destructive hurricane of the season. After he reached the intensity of category 5 on the open ocean in early September, he passed the north of the Greater Antilles as a Category 4 Donna hit the Florida Keys, Fort Myers, the Outer Banks, and finally Long Iceland, New York on 12 September. Donna caused 400 million dollars in damage and 364 deaths, of which 148 are directly caused by the storm.

Hurricane Ethel

Hurricane Ethel was formed on 14 September in the Gulf of Mexico and intensified rapidly and reached south that night Category 5 of the mouth of the Mississippi River. The storm weakened in the morning to a tropical storm off after he met the lower Plaquemines Parish with hurricane -force winds. Ethel came as a tropical storm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi on land and caused only 1 million dollars in damage.

Tropical Storm Florence

A large area of rain activity north of Puerto Rico became a tropical depression on September 17. The next day it became a tropical storm, but unfavorable conditions weakened Florence again to a low pressure area. It moved at 22 Cuba and moved northeastward across Florida. A high pressure ridge forced westward Florence, where it is after it passed over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, on 27 dissolved Mississippi.

Name of the storms from 1960

The following names have been used as names for storms ( tropical storms and hurricanes ) that formed in the North Atlantic in 1960. Not specified names are marked.

Abby
Brenda
Cleo
Donna
Ethel
Florence
Gladys ( not awarded)

Hilda ( not awarded)
Isbell ( not awarded)
Janet ( not awarded)
Katy ( not awarded)
Purple ( not awarded)
Molly ( not awarded)
Nita ( not awarded)

Odette ( not awarded)
Paula ( not awarded)
Roxie ( not awarded)
Stella ( not awarded)
Trudy ( not awarded)
Vesta ( not awarded)
Wesley ( not awarded)

Taking back

The name Donna was later removed from the list of names of tropical cyclones and replaced by Dora.

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