The 1957 season

Typhoon Gloria (1957)

Typhoon Gloria reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between September 17, 1957 and September 24, 1957, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Gloria, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1957 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
September 17, 1957 to September 24, 1957
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.3
Identifier
WP141957

Deaths and damage

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.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 17, 12:0011.6N 134.6EDisturbance
Sep 17, 18:0011.8N 134.0E1006 mbMixed
Sep 18, 00:0011.5N 135.0E30 kt1006 mbMixed
Sep 18, 06:0012.1N 134.0E30 kt1004 mbMixed
Sep 18, 12:0012.9N 133.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0013.2N 131.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0013.9N 130.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0014.5N 129.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0014.9N 128.0E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0015.3N 126.5E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0016.0N 125.2E60 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0016.8N 123.6E80 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0017.5N 122.0E90 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0018.4N 120.5E80 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0018.8N 119.0E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0019.2N 118.0E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0019.7N 117.3E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0020.9N 116.0E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0022.0N 115.0E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0021.4N 114.3E980 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0021.9N 113.7E980 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0022.1N 112.9E980 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0022.1N 112.1E985 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0022.3N 111.7E995 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0022.8N 111.8E995 mbMixed
Sep 23, 18:0023.0N 111.9E998 mbMixed
Sep 24, 00:0023.5N 112.0E1000 mbMixed
Sep 24, 06:0023.7N 112.8E1004 mbMixed
Sep 24, 12:0023.6N 113.7E1004 mbMixed
Sep 24, 18:0023.2N 115.0E1006 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1957

What this means

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.

Sources

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.