April 10, 1960 – An unnamed tropical cyclone was located north of New Zealand when it was captured by the TIROS-1 weather satellite, making it the first tropical cyclone with a photograph taken from a satellite.[3]
1960–61
January 9–14, 1961 – Tropical Cyclone Barberine existed near New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands, where it had a minor impact on the islands.[1][4]
February 3–11, 1961 – Tropical Cyclone Catherine.[1]
March 3–12, 1961 – A possible tropical cyclone impacted Tuvalu, Samoa and the Northern Cook Islands.[1]
March 12–19, 1961 – A tropical cyclone impacted the Northern Cook Islands and French Polynesia's Society Islands. It is thought that this system might have been two separate tropical cyclones rather than one.[1]
March 14–19, 1961 – A tropical cyclone impacted central and southern Tonga.[2]
November 29 – December 8, 1961 – Tropical Cyclone Alizor developed about 435 km (270 mi) to the southwest of Honiara in the Solomon Islands.[5][6] Over the next few days, the system moved south-eastwards and passed around 250 km (155 mi) to the west of Koumac in northern New Caledonia during December 2.[5][6] The system subsequently continued to move south-eastwards and impacted Norfolk Island, before it was last noted during December 10, while located to the northwest of New Zealand.[6][7] Alizor caused heavy rain, minor damage, river flooding and disrupted telephone communications in New Caledonia.[1][5][6]
February 8–13, 1962 – A tropical depression moved from Vanuatu to the south of Fiji and possibly became a tropical cyclone.[1][7]
February 13–17, 1962 – During February 13, a tropical cyclone formed to the northwest of Palmerston Island and moved eastwards towards Aitutaki, where gale-force winds were reported.[1][8] The system subsequently moved southwards through the eastern Cook Islands, before it was last noted during February 17.[8] Within the Cook Islands, the system possibly produced hurricane-force winds over the islands, where considerable damage to houses and citrus plantations was reported on Mauke and Atiu.[8]
February 14–17, 1962 – A tropical cyclone existed to the east of Vanuatu and moved south-eastwards without making landfall.[1]
February 18–19, 1962 – A tropical cyclone was located to the southwest of Palmerston Island in the Cook Islands.[1]
February 27 – March 2, 1962 – A tropical cyclone existed in between Vanuatu and New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands.[1]
November 10–14, 1962 – A tropical cyclone existed near New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands and moved south-eastwards towards the Kermadic Islands.[1]
December 22–25, 1962 – A tropical cyclone existed to the south of Samoa and moved south-eastwards to the south of the Cook Islands where it caused gale-force winds on Palmerston Island.[1]
January 15–18, 1963 – A tropical cyclone moved through the islands of Vanuatu where it caused no significant damage.[1]
January 18–21, 1963 – A possible tropical cyclone moved from Vanuatu to the south of Fiji.[1]
January 29 – February 2, 1963 – A possible tropical cyclone existed in the Coral Sea to the north of New Caledonia.[1]
February 16–20, 1963 – A tropical cyclone moved south-westwards within the Coral Sea, however, it did not make landfall on any island nation.[1]
March 1–6, 1963 – A tropical cyclone existed within the Coral Sea and moved south-eastwards between Vanuatu and New Caledonia.[1]
March 7–18, 1963 – A tropical cyclone impacted Tonga, Niue and the Southern Cook Islands.[1]
April 1–6, 1963 – A tropical cyclone existed to the southeast of New Caledonia.[1]
April 20–26, 1963 – A tropical cyclone existed within the Coral Sea to the southeast of New Guinea.[1]
1963–64
November 15–25, 1963 – A tropical cyclone impacted Vanuatu.[1]
December 15–23, 1963 – A tropical cyclone was observed over the north-eastern Coral Sea, as it moved through the Santa Cruz Islands before it moved southeastwards to the west of Fiji.[1]
January 27 – February 2, 1964 – Tropical Cyclone Bertha.[1]
March 18–25, 1964 – One or two tropical cyclones existed to the east of Vanuatu and moved south-eastwards towards southern Fiji.[1]
March 20, 1964 – A possible tropical cyclone possibly moved south-eastwards from New Caledonia to the south of Fiji.[1]
March 28 – April 7, 1964 – Tropical Cyclone Henrietta.[1]
June 13, 1964 – A tropical cyclone impacted the Samoan Islands, where 250 people were killed.[1]
1964–65
November 19 – December 1, 1964 – During November 19, a tropical cyclone was identified near Rotuma, before a plane from the Royal New Zealand Air Force provided information on the system's position during the next day.[9] Over the next few days, the system moved south-eastwards and passed near Fiji's Vanua Levu and northern Lau Islands, causing minor damage to houses and coconut trees.[1] After impacting Fiji, the system appeared to perform a loop, before it moved eastwards between the Tongan islands of Tongatapu and Haʻapai.[9] After moving south of Niue, the system turned south-eastwards, before it was last noted during December 1.[1]
December 5–8, 1964 – A small tropical cyclone developed to the northwest of Rotuma, before hurricane-force winds were reported on the island during December 5, as it passed just to the east of the Fijian dependency.[1] Over the next few days, the system moved south-westwards and impacted the Lau Islands, before it dissipated near Tonga during December 8.[1]
December 18–22, 1964 – A tropical cyclone impacted Fiji.[1]
January 14–16, 1965 – A possible tropical cyclone moved from Vanuatu to the south of Fiji.[1]
February 4–12, 1965 – A tropical cyclone impacted Wallis and Futuna and Fiji.[1]
February 18–19, 1965 – A possible tropical cyclone named Lucile impacted Vanuatu.[1]
February 24–28, 1965 – A possible tropical cyclone named Olga existed to the east of New Caledonia.[1]
1965–66
January 26 – February 6, 1966 – A tropical cyclone developed to the north of Fiji and later impacted Wallis and Futuna, Samoa and the Southern Cook Islands.[1][9]
January 29–31, 1966 – A tropical cyclone caused gale-force winds on Palmerston Island and Aitutaki, as it moved through the Southern Cook Islands.[1] The storm caused significant damage in Samoa, American Samoa, Wallis et Futuna, and Tokelau, including uprooting all of Samoa's banana trees, three-quarters of its breadfruit trees, and a fifth of its coconut trees.[10]
February 13, 1966 – A possible tropical cyclone was located to the east of Tokelau.[1]
February 23 – March 2, 1966 – Tropical Cyclone Connie was located within the north-eastern Coral Sea and moved westwards, before it recurved south-eastwards to pass to the west of New Caledonia.[1]
March 12–16, 1966 – A tropical cyclone moved southeastwards between Vanuatu and New Caledonia.[1]
April 26–28, 1966 – A possible tropical cyclone existed to the west of French Polynesia's Society Islands and south of the Austral Islands.[1]
1966–67
November 13–19, 1966 – Tropical Cyclone Angela impacted the Solomon Islands.[1]
December 4–9, 1966 – A tropical cyclone moved south-eastwards over Viti Levu and the Lau Islands, where it caused some damage to banana trees and bures.[9]
January 23–31, 1967 – Tropical Cyclone Dinah developed near the Solomon Islands, before it moved south-westwards into the Australian region.[1]
February 1–8, 1967 – Tropical Cyclone Agnes developed to the east of northern Vanuatu and moved southeastwards between the island nation and New Caledonia.[1]
February 18–22, 1967 – Tropical Cyclone Barbara.[1]
February 23–27, 1967 – A possible tropical cyclone moved from Vanuatu to the south of Fiji.[1]
April 7–14, 1967 – During April 7, a tropical cyclone developed to the northeast of Rotuma and moved southwards where it made landfall on Vanua Levu during April 9.[9] Over the next couple of days, the system moved south-southeastwards to the east of Suva, near the island of Matuku and to the west of Ono-I-Lau. Severe damage was reported.[9]
1967–68
November 10–16, 1967 – Tropical Cyclone Annie.[11]
December 12–20, 1967 – A tropical cyclone impacted Tokelau and the Cook Islands.[1]
January 2–19, 1970 – Severe Tropical Cyclone Ada's precursor tropical depression performed a large clockwise loop, near the Solomon Islands before it ultimately made landfall on Queensland, Australia.[1]
January 9, 1970 – An area of low pressure with three weak centres, existed between Fiji, Rotuma and Samoa. Two of these centres developed further and brought gale-force winds to Tokelau, Samoa and Tuvalu.[1]
January 11–12, 1970 – A tropical depression brought gale-force winds to both Fiji and Tonga.[1][12]
^Waygood, J L M (October 20, 1980). Information Sheet No. 59: Tropical Cyclones affecting Fiji: November 1969 to April 1980 (Report). Fiji Meteorological Service.
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