

It moved northwestward through the, strengthening quickly to a typhoon on the 24th due to its small size. Tropical depressions in this basin had the 'W' suffix added to their number.ĭurationApril 21 – April 27Peak intensity140 km/h (85 mph) (1-min) 990 An area of disturbed weather in the Philippine Sea moved westward, and organized into a tropical depression on April 22. Tropical storms formed in the entire west Pacific basin were assigned a name by the.

Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes see.

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. , 1960,The 1960 Pacific typhoon season had no official bounds it ran year-round in 1960, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December.
