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Super Typhoon Nancy, also known as the 2nd Muroto Typhoon (第二室戸台風, Daini-muroto Taifū), was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone of the 1961 Pacific typhoon season and one of the most intense tropical cyclones on record.
Hurricane Betsy was the first hurricane to have damages exceeding US$1 billion. In 1960, four rotating lists of names were developed to avoid creating new lists each year, while the practice of retiring any particularly damaging storm names for 10 years continued, with 11 names deemed significant enough to be retired during the decade.
The 1961 Atlantic hurricane season was a very active Atlantic hurricane season, with an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) total of 189, the highest since 1950 and until being surpassed by 1995. The season, however, was an average one in terms of named storms. The season featured eight hurricanes and a well above average number of five major ...
A National Weather Service technician monitors Hurricane Carla on a WSR-57 radar on Sept. 10, 1961. (NOAA) For more than 60 years, Hurricane Carla has been the benchmark for landfalling hurricanes ...
Typhoon Nancy (1954) (T5416) Typhoon Nancy (1958) (T5828) Typhoon Nancy (1961) – (T6118, 52W) struck Japan. Known as 2nd Muroto Typhoon. Tropical Storm Nancy (1964) (21W, Japan Meteorological Agency analyzed it as a tropical depression, not as a tropical storm.) Tropical Storm Nancy (1966) (T6633, 36W, Uding) Typhoon Nancy (1970) (T7001, 01W ...
Hurricane Milton slammed into Florida's Gulf Coast Wednesday night, packing 120 mph winds as a Category 3 storm and bringing a new wave of destruction to an area already reeling from the ravages ...
Flooding, uprooted trees, and structural damage are just the tip of the iceberg of the destruction from Hurricane Helene. Hurricane Helene’s surge smashes records for high water levels in Tampa Bay
They also decided that the new lists of hurricane name would start to be used in 1978 which was a year earlier than the Atlantic. [36] Since 1978 the same lists of names have been used, with names of significant tropical cyclones removed from the lists and replaced with new names. [ 34 ]