The 1957 season

Unnamed hurricane (1957)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between October 20, 1957 and October 22, 1957, and made landfall.

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
October 20, 1957 to October 22, 1957
Peak strength
Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.5
Identifier
EP101957

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
Oct 20, 12:0016.0N 112.6W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 20, 18:0016.7N 111.9W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 21, 00:0017.5N 111.0W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 21, 06:0018.5N 110.0W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 21, 12:0019.7N 109.0W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 21, 18:0021.1N 108.0W120 ktHurricane
Oct 22, 00:0022.6N 107.0W120 ktHurricane
Oct 22, 06:0024.3N 106.4W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 22, 12:0026.3N 106.2W25 ktTropical depression

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.