The 1961 Pacific typhoon season had no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1961, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1961 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Tropical depressions in this basin had the "W" suffix added to their number.

Storms

Tropical Storm Rita

Tropical Storm Susan

Typhoon Tess

Tropical Storm Viola

Tropical Storm Winnie

Typhoon Alice

Typhoon Alice formed to the east of the Philippines on the 17th of May. Alice quickly strengthened and passed very near to Hong Kong with winds of 85 mph on the 18th before recurving through the Chinese Mainland. 4 people were killed and 20 people were injured in Hong Kong. http://www.usno.navy.mil/NOOC/nmfc-ph/RSS/jtwc/atcr/1961atcr/pdf/chapter4.pdf

Typhoon Betty

Typhoon Cora

Tropical Storm Doris

Typhoon Elsie

Tropical Storm Flossie

Tropical Storm Grace

Typhoon Helen

Typhoon Ida

Typhoon June

20 people were killed from heavy rain and mudslides when 90 mph Typhoon June hit southeastern Taiwan on August 6.

Typhoon Kathy

Typhoon Lorna

Tropical Storm Marie

Typhoon Nancy

Tropical Storm Nancy, having developed on September 7 in the open West Pacific, rapidly intensified to reach super typhoon status early on the 9th. Nancy continued to strengthen, and reached peak winds of 215 mph (187 knots) on the 12th. Such intensity is speculative, as Reconnaissance Aircraft was in its infancy and most intensities were estimates. Furthermore, later analysis indicated that equipment likely overestimated Nancy's wind speed; if the measurements were correct, Nancy would have had the highest wind speeds of any tropical cyclone by 25 mph. Regardless, Nancy was a formidable typhoon, and retained super typhoon status until the 14th as it neared Okinawa. The typhoon turned to the northeast, and made landfall on southern Japan on the 16th with winds of 100 mph. It continued rapidly northeastward, and became extratropical on the 17th in the Sea of Okhotsk. Well executed warnings lessened Nancy's potential major impact, but the typhoon still caused 172 fatalities and widespread damage.

Typhoon Olga

Typhoon Olga struck Hong Kong killing 7 people.^[1]

Typhoon Pamela

Typhoon Pamela, which formed on September 8, rapidly intensified to a peak of 180 mph on the 11th. Pamela weakened to a 145 mph typhoon by the time it hit eastern Taiwan late on the 11th, and after crossing the island and the Taiwan Strait, the storm hit eastern China as a 65 mph tropical storm. Pamela dissipated on the 12th, after causing 98 casualties (with 27 missing), $5 million in damage (1961 USD), and leaving 50,000 homeless.

Tropical Storm Ruby

Typhoon Sally

Typhoon Tilda

When 90 mph Typhoon Tilda, having once had a 160 mph peak, hit northeastern China on October 4, it caused 11 deaths, over $6 million in crop damage, and sank 1 ship killing 2.

Typhoon Violet

Super Typhoon Violet was an extremely strong storm with minimum pressure of 882 mb.

Tropical Storm Wilda

Tropical Storm Anita

Typhoon Billie

Typhoon Clara

Typhoon Dot

Typhoon Ellen

1961 storm names

See also

• 1961 Atlantic hurricane season
• 1950-1969 Pacific hurricane seasons
• Pre-1970 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons

References

External links

• Japan Meteorological Agency
• Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
• China Meteorological Agency
• National Weather Service Guam
• Hong Kong Observatory
• Macau Meteorological Geophysical Services
• Korea Meteorological Agency
• Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
• Taiwan Central Weather Bureau
• Digital Typhoon - Typhoon Images and Information
• Typhoon2000 Philippine typhoon website

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