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Typhoon Polly path, 1960

Western North Pacific basin, 17 July 1960 to 2 August 1960. Its recorded track is shown on the map and selected for you.

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Key
  • Tropical depression Winds below 34 knots (39 mph)
  • Tropical storm 34 to 63 knots (39 to 73 mph)
  • Category 1 64 to 82 knots (74 to 95 mph)
  • Category 2 83 to 95 knots (96 to 110 mph)
  • Category 3 96 to 112 knots (111 to 129 mph), major
  • Category 4 113 to 136 knots (130 to 156 mph), major
  • Category 5 137 knots (157 mph) or more, major
  • Unknown intensity No wind speed in the record
  • Post-tropical Storm has become post-tropical (dashed line)

How to read the lines. Each line is the track of one storm, drawn through its six-hourly positions and coloured by its intensity at each point (the Saffir-Simpson scale), so a line changes colour as the storm strengthens or weakens. Tap a line for its details, or tap anywhere else to see which storms have passed nearby. Weaker storms appear as you zoom in. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are the same kind of storm with different names in different oceans.

What the record says

Polly was a typhoon in the Western North Pacific basin that lasted about 16 days, from 17 July 1960 to 2 August 1960. Its peak was Category 4 (115 kt) on 21 July 1960, with a 1-minute sustained wind of 115 kt (132 mph, 213 km/h). Its lowest recorded pressure was 950 hPa.

  • Category 4peak intensity
  • 115 ktpeak wind (132 mph)
  • 950 hPalowest pressure
  • 16 dayslifetime

Source of the peak wind: US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (western Pacific).

It has its own page because it reached category 4 or stronger.

This page gives the official record's figures. It does not describe the human cost of the storm, which is far larger than any wind speed or pressure here.

Where it came ashore

A landfall here is the first tropical position over land after time at sea, so it is within about six hours of the real event. The record shows up to 8.

Countries it came within 50 km of

Strongest effect first.

How to read this track

The line joins the storm's six-hourly positions with straight lines, coloured by its intensity at each point, so it shows how the storm strengthened and weakened. The real path curved between the positions. A dashed grey stretch means the storm had become post-tropical. Records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are estimates.

Source: NOAA NCEI IBTrACS, public domain. See data sources and caveats.

Other notable storms of the 1960 Western North Pacific season

Other notable storms near People's Republic of China

  • Yagi (2024)30 August 2024 to 9 September 2024, peak Category 5 (145 kt), 915 hPa
  • Rammasun (2014)9 July 2014 to 20 July 2014, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 935 hPa
  • Judy (1979)15 August 1979 to 27 August 1979, peak Category 4 (135 kt), 910 hPa
  • Betty (1953)25 October 1953 to 3 November 1953, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 966 hPa
  • Chanchu (2006)7 May 2006 to 19 May 2006, peak Category 4 (125 kt), 930 hPa

The 1960 Western North Pacific season · All notable storms

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