The 1957 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1957)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between October 11, 1957 and October 16, 1957, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
October 11, 1957 to October 16, 1957
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Identifier
WP171957

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 11, 00:0013.0N 132.5EDisturbance
Oct 11, 06:0013.0N 131.0EDisturbance
Oct 11, 12:0013.0N 129.5E1004 mbMixed
Oct 11, 18:0013.0N 128.2E1004 mbMixed
Oct 12, 00:0013.1N 127.0E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0013.3N 126.2E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0013.9N 124.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0014.7N 121.9E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0015.0N 121.0E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0015.5N 120.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0016.1N 119.1E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0017.0N 117.5E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0017.4N 116.7E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0018.1N 115.6E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 12:0018.3N 115.2E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 18:0018.6N 115.0E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 00:0020.2N 113.5E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 06:0021.1N 112.7E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 12:0021.9N 112.8E30 kt1000 mbMixed
Oct 15, 18:0023.1N 112.6E1006 mbMixed
Oct 16, 00:0023.6N 112.8EDisturbance
Oct 16, 06:0023.9N 114.0EDisturbance
Oct 16, 12:0024.0N 115.7EDisturbance

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.