Super Typhoon Hester (1957)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

October 3, 1957 to October 13, 1957

Peak strength

Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)

Lowest pressure

900 mb (26.58 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 166 km (103 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

17.4

Identifier

WP151957

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.

• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 1957Tropical Storm40 kt · 995 mb
• Super Typhoon RoseWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 4135 kt · 952 mb
• Typhoon ShirleyWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 3100 kt · 975 mb
• Typhoon TrixWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 4120 kt · 950 mb
• Super Typhoon VirginiaWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 5150 kt · 900 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1957Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1957Tropical Depression
• Typhoon WendyWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 290 kt · 985 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1957Tropical Depression
• Super Typhoon AgnesWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 4135 kt · 905 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 1957Tropical Storm55 kt · 984 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1957Tropical Depression998 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1957Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1957Tropical Depression
• Typhoon BessWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 3100 kt · 950 mb
• Typhoon CarmenWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 3110 kt · 960 mb
• Typhoon ElaineWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 4120 kt · 945 mb
• Typhoon GloriaWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 290 kt · 980 mb
• Super Typhoon FayeWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 5140 kt · 930 mb
• Typhoon IrmaWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 175 kt · 990 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 1957Tropical Storm45 kt · 1000 mb
• Super Typhoon JudyWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 4130 kt · 960 mb
• Super Typhoon KitWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 5140 kt · 910 mb
• Super Typhoon LolaWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 5160 kt · 900 mb
• Typhoon MamieWestern Pacific · 1957Cat 3110 kt · 960 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.