1961 season track map
Category 5 (≥137kt)Intense hurricane/typhoon (≥113kt)Major hurricane/typhoon (≥96kt)Hurricane/typhoon (≥64kt)Named storm (≥34kt)Tropical depression (<34kt)Post-tropical / disturbance
Storms: ESTHER (140kt), HATTIE (145kt), BETSY (115kt), CARLA (125kt), FRANCES (115kt), ANNA (90kt), DEBBIE (80kt), JENNY (70kt), INGA (60kt), UNNAMED (50kt), UNNAMED (60kt), GERDA (65kt)
Hurricane-strength landfalls, 1961
Attributed to whichever basin a storm was actually crossing at the moment of landfall, matching the H/MH Landfalls columns above — that can differ from a storm's genesis basin shown elsewhere on this site.
- 1961 AL01 — ANNA
- 1961 AL03 — CARLAMH
- 1961 AL09 — HATTIEMH
Major-hurricane-strength landfalls, 1961
- 1961 AL03 — CARLA
- 1961 AL09 — HATTIE