Missing system? 

This page from the Organization of American States has a table about midway through it. In the section Mexico is has several different hurricanes listed. Between Janet and Tara there is a gap that appears to indicate an unnamed hurricane. The table attributes 960 casualties to this mysterious unnamed tropical cyclone. It also indicates that it took place in October, 1960. The problem is, this mysterious system is not in the best track. The last named storm in the Atlantic was in September. In the Pacific, the only October systems were Hyacinth and perhaps the deleted Gwen. And yet a search through the hurricane archive for "Storm Gwen", "Hurricane Gwen", "Storm Hyacinth", and "Hurricane Hyacinth" reveals only a single hit from the wrong year. How does someone miss a tropical cyclone killing nearly 1000 people? Unless it was a tropical depression that did that, something does not add up here.  | Talk to Madeline