Hurricane Fifi (1958)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 4, 1958 to September 11, 1958

Peak strength

Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)

Lowest pressure

1000 mb (29.53 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 399 km (248 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

5.9

Identifier

AL061958

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 stormNorth Atlantic · 1958Tropical Storm55 kt · 1001 mb
• Tropical Storm AlmaNorth Atlantic · 1958Tropical Storm55 kt
• Tropical Storm BeckyNorth Atlantic · 1958Tropical Storm60 kt · 1004 mb
• Hurricane CleoNorth Atlantic · 1958Cat 4120 kt · 947 mb
• Hurricane DaisyNorth Atlantic · 1958Cat 4115 kt · 948 mb
• Hurricane EllaNorth Atlantic · 1958Cat 295 kt · 983 mb
• Tropical Storm GerdaNorth Atlantic · 1958Tropical Storm50 kt · 1001 mb
• Hurricane HeleneNorth Atlantic · 1958Cat 4130 kt · 930 mb
• Hurricane IlsaNorth Atlantic · 1958Cat 295 kt · 956 mb
• Hurricane JaniceNorth Atlantic · 1958Cat 285 kt · 968 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1958Tropical Storm60 kt

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.

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