1960 Pacific hurricane season

Infobox hurricane season
Basin=EPac
Year=1960
Track=1960_Pacific_hurricane_season_summary.jpg
First storm formed=June 9, 1960
Last storm dissipated=October 23, 1960
Strongest storm name=Celeste, Diana, Fernanda, Hyacinth
Strongest storm winds=85
Total depressions=17
Total storms=7
Total hurricanes=5
Total intense=0
five seasons=1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962The 1960 Pacific hurricane season was an ongoing event in meteorology. It officially started on May 15, 1960 in the eastern Pacific and lasted until November 30, 1960. The 1960 season was the first season that Eastern Pacific Hurricanes were named. [cite web|author=hurricane.com|year=2007|title=Hurricane Naming|accessdate=2007-08-20|url=http://www.hurricane.com/hurricane-names.php]

Eight tropical cyclones, seven named storms and five hurricanes formed during the 1960 season, none of the hurricanes reached beyond category 1 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.cite web|Unisys|year=2007|title=1960 Pacific Hurricane Season|accessdate=2007-08-20|url=http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/e_pacific/1960/index.html]

torms

Tropical Storm Annette

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=June 9
Dissipated=June 12
1-min winds=45Tropical Storm Annette formed on June 9 as a 45 mph (70 km/h) tropical storm south of Mexico and moved westward before dissipating on June 12. [cite web|author=Unisys|year=2007|title=Annette 1960 Best Track Data|accessdate=2007-08-20|url=http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/e_pacific/1960/ANNETTE/track.dat] The storm never made landfall and the effects from Annette is unknown.

Tropical Storm Bonny

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=June 22
Dissipated=June 26
1-min winds=45Tropical Storm Bonny formed on June 22 southwest of Mexico and moved northwestward as a 45 mph (70 km/h) tropical storm. Bonny then turned northward and then turned westward before dissipating south of Baja California on June 26.

Hurricane Celeste

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=July 20
Dissipated=July 22
1-min winds=75

The remnants of Hurricane Abby moved into the Eastern Pacific Ocean [cite web|author=Raymond A. Green|year=1960|title=Weather and Circulation of July|publisher=NOAA|accessdate=2007-08-20|url=http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/088/mwr-088-07-0257.pdf] and intensifed into a hurricane on July 20 and was named Celeste. The hurricane moved northwestward where it winds peaked at 85 mph (135 km/h) before it weakened into a tropical storm and dissipated on July 22.

Hurricane Diana

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=August 17
Dissipated=August 20
1-min winds=75
Pressure=987

Hurricane Diana formed on August 16 [cite web|author=L.P. Stark|year=1960|title=Weather and Circulation of August|publisher=NOAA|accessdate=2007-08-22|url=http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/088/mwr-088-08-0286.pdf] And reached hurricane strength on August 17 where it moved northwestward.Diana briefly weakened into a tropical storm on August 18 before reaching hurricane strength again the following day. [cite web|author=Unisys|year=2007|title=Diana 1960 Best Track Data|accessdate=2007-08-22|url=http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/e_pacific/1960/DIANA/track.dat] After brushing southern Baja California Peninsula, Diana entered the Gulf of California where it became extratropical on August 20.

Hurricane Estelle

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=August 29
Dissipated=September 9
1-min winds=75Estelle formed on August 29 south-southwest of Guatemala. The storm moved west-northwest, paralleling the coast of Mexico as a 85 mph (135 km/h) hurricane before becoming extratropical on September 9. The remnants of Estelle brought heavy rainfall across southern California with rainfall totals reaching 3.1 inches (76.2 mm) in Julian. [cite web|author=Jack Williams|year=2005|title=Background: California's tropical storms|publisher=USA Today|accessdate=2007-08-23|url=http://www.usatoday.com/weather/whhcalif.htm]

Hurricane Fernanda

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=September 3
Dissipated=September 8
1-min winds=75Fernanda formed on September 3 southwest of Guatemala where it moved west-northwest as a category 1 hurricane before dissapating on September 8 southwest of Mexico.

Tropical Cyclone Gwen

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPacA tropical cyclone in the eastern Pacific was given the name Gwen. [cite web|title=List ot Tropical Cyclone names|accessdate=2007-08-23|url=http://www.atwc.org/pachist.txt] However, the system was not included in the best track data. [cite web|author=NOAA|year=2006|title=HURDAT Best Track Data|accessdate=2007-08-23|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/tracks1949to2006_epa.txt] The reason why is unknown.

Hurricane Hyacinth

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=October 21
Dissipated=October 23
1-min winds=75

Hyacinth formed as a hurricane on October 21 and recurved northeastward where it made weakened into a tropical storm before it made landfall as a tropical depression on October 23. Damage from Hyacinth, if any is unknown.

torm names

The following names were used for named storms that formed in the eastern Pacific in 1960. No names were retired, so it was used again in the 1972 season. This is the same list as list 1 used during 1960-1965, Names that were not assigned are marked in gray.

The Central Pacific used names and numbers from the Western Pacific's typhoon list. No systems formed in the area, and thus no names were required.

ee also

*Tropical cyclone

References