Hurricane Helene (1958)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 21, 1958 to October 4, 1958

Peak strength

Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)

Lowest pressure

930 mb (27.46 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

18.3

Fastest the center moved

41 kt (47 mph)

Identifier

AL081958

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.

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 1,510 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 8.29 inches (211 mm).

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

• 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
• Hurricane FifiNorth Atlantic · 1958Cat 175 kt · 1000 mb
• Tropical Storm GerdaNorth Atlantic · 1958Tropical Storm50 kt · 1001 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.

• Wikipedia article: Hurricane Helene