Season Effects
This is a table of the storms in 1961 and their landfall(s), if any. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but are still storm-related. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical or a wave or low.
| TD | TS | C1 | C2 | C3 | C4 | C5 |
| Storm name |
Dates active | Storm category
at peak intensity |
Max wind (mph) |
Min. press. (mbar) |
Landfall(s) | Damage (millions USD) |
Deaths | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where | When | Wind
(mph) |
||||||||
| Anna | July 19 – July 24 | Category 3 hurricane | 115 | 976 | Northern Honduras (direct hit, no landfall) | July 23 | 105 | 0.3 | 1 | |
| Southern Belize | July 24 | 80 | ||||||||
| Betsy | September 2 – September 11 | Category 4 hurricane | 140 | 945 | none | none | 0 | |||
| Carla | September 3 – September 15 | Category 5 hurricane | 175 | 931 | Port Lavaca, Texas | September 11 | 150 | 325 | 46 | |
| Debbie | September 6 – September 16 | Category 3 hurricane | 120 | 970 | County Mayo, Republic of Ireland | September 16 | 80 | unknown | 11 | |
| Esther | September 10 – September 27 | Category 4 hurricane | 145 | 927 | Nantucket, Massachusetts | September 26 | 45 | 6 | 0 (7) | |
| Cape Cod, Massachusetts | September 26 | 45 | ||||||||
| Portland, Maine | September 26 | 40 | ||||||||
| Six | September 12 – September 15 | Tropical storm | 40 | 994 | Wilmington, North Carolina | September 14 | 35 | minimal | 0 | |
| Frances | September 30 – October 9 | Category 3 hurricane | 125 | 948 | Martinique | October 1 | 50 | minimal | 0 | |
| La Altagracia Province, Dominican Republic | October 3 | 60 | ||||||||
| Gerda | October 16 – October 21 | Tropical storm | 70 | 982 | Clarendon Parish, Jamaica | October 16 | 30 | unknown | 12 | |
| Camagüey Province, Cuba | October 17 | 35 | ||||||||
| Central Bahamas | October 18 | 35 | ||||||||
| Hattie | October 27 – November 1 | Category 5 hurricane | 160 | 920 | Belize City, Belize | October 31 | 140 | 60.3 | 319 | |
| Jenny | November 1 – November 8 | Category 1 hurricane | 80 | 974 | none | none | 0 | |||
| Inga | November 5 – November 8 | Tropical storm | 70 | 992 | none | none | 0 | |||
| Season Aggregates | ||||||||||
| 11 cyclones | July 19 – November 8 | 175 | 920 | 13 landfalls | 391.6 | 390 | ||||
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