The 1958 season

Super Typhoon Grace (1958)

Super Typhoon Grace reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between August 27, 1958 and September 9, 1958, with a lowest pressure of 905 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Grace, 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
August 27, 1958 to September 9, 1958
Peak strength
Category 5, 165 kt (190 mph)
Lowest pressure
905 mb (26.72 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
34.1
Identifier
WP131958

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 27, 18:008.0N 146.1E1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:008.6N 146.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:009.3N 146.2E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0010.0N 146.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0010.4N 145.6E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0010.7N 144.9E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0010.9N 143.9E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0011.2N 143.0E50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0011.6N 142.1E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0011.6N 141.0E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0012.4N 139.9E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0012.8N 138.7E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0013.2N 137.4E95 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0014.3N 136.5E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0015.0N 135.3E115 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0015.4N 133.9E115 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0015.8N 132.5E120 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0016.6N 131.5E135 kt905 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0017.2N 130.4E150 kt910 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0017.9N 129.1E160 kt910 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0018.8N 128.2E165 kt915 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0019.7N 127.4E165 kt920 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0020.5N 126.7E160 kt910 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0021.3N 125.8E130 kt910 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0022.2N 124.8E125 kt915 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0023.1N 124.0E125 kt920 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0023.7N 123.2E110 kt920 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0024.5N 123.0E100 kt920 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0025.8N 122.1E115 kt920 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0026.5N 121.0E115 kt920 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0027.4N 120.0E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0028.0N 119.9E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0031.0N 120.0E60 kt990 mbMixed
Sep 5, 00:0033.0N 122.0E35 kt994 mbMixed
Sep 5, 06:0035.0N 125.0E30 kt996 mbMixed
Sep 5, 12:0031.6N 122.5E996 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0032.6N 124.3E998 mbExtratropical
Sep 6, 00:0033.8N 126.2E1000 mbExtratropical
Sep 6, 06:0035.4N 129.1E1002 mbExtratropical
Sep 6, 12:0037.0N 132.0E1002 mbExtratropical
Sep 6, 18:0039.0N 136.3E1002 mbExtratropical
Sep 7, 00:0040.2N 140.5E1005 mbExtratropical
Sep 7, 06:0039.1N 143.9E1005 mbExtratropical
Sep 7, 12:0039.0N 147.8E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 7, 18:0039.0N 150.9E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 8, 00:0039.0N 153.0E1007 mbExtratropical
Sep 8, 06:0039.5N 155.0E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 8, 12:0038.9N 157.2E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 8, 18:0038.7N 160.2E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 9, 00:0038.8N 163.8E1008 mbExtratropical
Sep 9, 06:0039.0N 166.9E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 9, 12:0039.0N 169.0E1008 mbExtratropical

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.