Typhoon Alice (1953)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

October 11, 1953 to October 23, 1953

Peak strength

Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)

Lowest pressure

915 mb (27.02 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 690 km (429 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

21.3

Fastest the center moved

34 kt (39 mph)

Identifier

WP191953

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 541 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 13.48 inches (342 mm).

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

• Typhoon IrmaWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 3100 kt · 980 mb
• Typhoon JudyWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 4120 kt · 940 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Storm40 kt · 992 mb
• Super Typhoon KitWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 5150 kt · 910 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Depression
• Typhoon LolaWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 180 kt · 970 mb
• Typhoon MamieWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 3100 kt · 980 mb
• Super Typhoon NinaWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 5160 kt · 885 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Storm45 kt
• Typhoon OpheliaWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 3100 kt · 960 mb
• Typhoon PhyllisWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 175 kt · 975 mb
• Tropical Depression NinaWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Depression
• Typhoon RitaWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 4125 kt · 940 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Storm55 kt · 995 mb
• Typhoon SusanWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 3110 kt · 970 mb
• Super Typhoon TessWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 5150 kt · 900 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Storm40 kt · 998 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Depression999 mb
• Typhoon ViolaWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 3100 kt · 967 mb
• Typhoon WinnieWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 165 kt · 990 mb
• Super Typhoon BettyWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 4130 kt · 966 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Depression
• Typhoon CoraWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 4120 kt · 960 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Storm40 kt · 998 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Storm40 kt · 1000 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1953Tropical Depression
• Super Typhoon DorisWestern Pacific · 1953Cat 5150 kt · 935 mb

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

• Wikipedia article: Typhoon Alice