The 1957 season

Unnamed hurricane (1957)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between August 9, 1957 and August 15, 1957.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
August 9, 1957 to August 15, 1957
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 396 km (246 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
15.2
Identifier
EP031957

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
Aug 9, 00:0014.2N 108.3W75 ktHurricane
Aug 9, 06:0014.6N 109.3W75 ktHurricane
Aug 9, 12:0015.3N 109.9W75 ktHurricane
Aug 9, 18:0015.9N 109.8W75 ktHurricane
Aug 10, 00:0016.5N 109.8W75 ktHurricane
Aug 10, 06:0016.9N 110.1W75 ktHurricane
Aug 10, 12:0017.3N 110.3W75 ktHurricane
Aug 10, 18:0018.0N 110.5W75 ktHurricane
Aug 11, 00:0018.6N 110.8W75 ktHurricane
Aug 11, 06:0019.3N 111.3W75 ktHurricane
Aug 11, 12:0019.8N 111.9W75 ktHurricane
Aug 11, 18:0020.1N 112.5W75 ktHurricane
Aug 12, 00:0020.4N 113.1W75 ktHurricane
Aug 12, 06:0021.2N 114.2W75 ktHurricane
Aug 12, 12:0022.1N 115.2W75 ktHurricane
Aug 12, 18:0022.6N 115.6W75 ktHurricane
Aug 13, 00:0023.1N 116.0W75 ktHurricane
Aug 13, 06:0023.5N 116.6W75 ktHurricane
Aug 13, 12:0024.0N 117.3W75 ktHurricane
Aug 13, 18:0024.7N 118.3W75 ktHurricane
Aug 14, 00:0025.3N 119.3W75 ktHurricane
Aug 14, 06:0025.8N 120.1W75 ktHurricane
Aug 14, 12:0026.3N 120.6W75 ktHurricane
Aug 14, 18:0027.1N 120.8W75 ktHurricane
Aug 15, 00:0027.9N 120.8W75 ktHurricane
Aug 15, 06:0028.5N 120.7W75 ktHurricane
Aug 15, 12:0029.1N 120.4W75 ktHurricane

Other Eastern 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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.