The 1958 season

Super Typhoon Alice (1958)

Super Typhoon Alice reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between July 13, 1958 and July 28, 1958, with a lowest pressure of 925 mb, and made landfall. It killed 26 people, as Wikidata records it.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Alice, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1958 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
July 13, 1958 to July 28, 1958
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
925 mb (27.32 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
28.3
Fastest the center moved
40 kt (46 mph)
Identifier
WP091958

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Wikidata

26 deathsno damage figure

A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 13, 06:004.9N 146.0E1000 mbMixed
Jul 13, 12:005.9N 145.3E1000 mbMixed
Jul 13, 18:007.3N 144.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:008.7N 143.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0010.0N 142.7E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0010.9N 141.9E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0011.9N 141.0E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0012.9N 140.2E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0013.5N 139.6E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0013.8N 139.0E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0014.2N 138.1E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0014.3N 137.3E60 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0014.6N 136.4E60 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0014.7N 135.8E65 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0015.0N 135.4E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0015.3N 134.9E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0015.9N 134.0E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0016.7N 133.8E75 kt960 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0017.5N 133.5E80 kt950 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0018.1N 132.9E80 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0018.7N 132.1E90 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0019.5N 132.0E100 kt935 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0020.2N 131.8E115 kt935 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0021.1N 131.5E115 kt925 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 06:0022.0N 131.1E115 kt925 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 12:0022.9N 131.0E120 kt925 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 18:0023.8N 131.1E130 kt925 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 00:0024.6N 131.2E130 kt930 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 06:0025.4N 131.5E130 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 12:0026.0N 131.8E125 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 18:0026.8N 132.7E115 kt950 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 00:0027.4N 133.1E105 kt960 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0028.1N 133.8E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0028.4N 134.5E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0029.0N 135.8E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0030.2N 135.8E80 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0031.2N 136.0E80 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0032.1N 136.4E75 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0033.5N 137.9E65 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0035.4N 139.7E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0038.0N 141.5E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0042.0N 142.5E50 kt990 mbMixed
Jul 23, 18:0044.0N 145.5E40 kt986 mbMixed
Jul 24, 00:0046.5N 150.0E30 kt988 mbMixed
Jul 24, 06:0048.5N 154.0E45 kt986 mbMixed
Jul 24, 12:0051.0N 158.0E45 kt980 mbMixed
Jul 24, 18:0051.8N 162.0E980 mbExtratropical
Jul 25, 00:0052.5N 164.2E984 mbExtratropical
Jul 25, 06:0052.8N 165.0E986 mbExtratropical
Jul 25, 12:0053.0N 166.0E986 mbExtratropical
Jul 25, 18:0053.0N 168.0E984 mbExtratropical
Jul 26, 00:0053.0N 169.0E982 mbExtratropical
Jul 26, 06:0052.0N 172.0E986 mbExtratropical
Jul 26, 12:0052.0N 173.0E986 mbExtratropical
Jul 26, 18:0051.8N 174.0E988 mbExtratropical
Jul 27, 00:0051.5N 174.6E990 mbExtratropical
Jul 27, 06:0051.0N 174.8E990 mbExtratropical
Jul 27, 12:0050.0N 175.0E998 mbExtratropical
Jul 27, 18:0049.0N 175.6E998 mbExtratropical
Jul 28, 00:0048.6N 178.0E1000 mbExtratropical
Jul 28, 06:0048.5N 181.0EExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 1958

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.