The 1958 season

Hurricane Janice (1958)

Hurricane Janice reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between October 4, 1958 and October 13, 1958, with a lowest pressure of 968 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Janice, 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
North Atlantic
Dates
October 4, 1958 to October 13, 1958
Peak strength
Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
Lowest pressure
968 mb (28.59 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
12.4
Identifier
AL101958

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 4, 12:0018.5N 81.1W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 4, 18:0019.0N 81.2W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 5, 00:0019.4N 81.3W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 5, 06:0019.8N 81.4W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 5, 12:0020.3N 81.4W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 5, 18:0020.9N 81.2W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 6, 00:0021.6N 80.6W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 6, 03:00 landfall22.0N 80.3W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 6, 06:0022.4N 79.9W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 6, 12:0023.3N 78.8W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 6, 16:00 landfall24.2N 78.0W55 kt991 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 18:0024.5N 77.6W55 kt991 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 21:00 landfall25.1N 77.1W60 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 23:00 landfall25.5N 76.8W60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 00:0025.8N 76.6W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 7, 06:0027.2N 75.6W65 ktHurricane
Oct 7, 12:0028.3N 75.1W70 ktHurricane
Oct 7, 18:0028.9N 74.8W70 kt983 mbHurricane
Oct 8, 00:0029.4N 74.5W70 kt985 mbHurricane
Oct 8, 06:0030.0N 74.2W70 kt986 mbHurricane
Oct 8, 12:0030.7N 73.8W70 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 8, 18:0031.4N 73.3W70 kt988 mbHurricane
Oct 9, 00:0031.8N 72.8W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Oct 9, 06:0032.0N 72.1W70 kt983 mbHurricane
Oct 9, 12:0032.2N 70.9W70 kt982 mbHurricane
Oct 9, 18:0032.7N 69.6W75 ktHurricane
Oct 10, 00:0033.3N 68.4W80 ktHurricane
Oct 10, 06:0034.0N 67.1W85 kt968 mbHurricane
Oct 10, 12:0034.8N 65.7W80 kt973 mbHurricane
Oct 10, 18:0036.0N 63.9W80 ktHurricane
Oct 11, 00:0037.2N 61.5W80 ktHurricane
Oct 11, 06:0038.4N 59.0W80 ktHurricane
Oct 11, 12:0039.9N 55.9W80 kt974 mbHurricane
Oct 11, 18:0041.5N 51.5W80 ktHurricane
Oct 12, 00:0043.3N 47.0W70 ktExtratropical
Oct 12, 06:0045.0N 43.0W60 ktExtratropical
Oct 12, 12:0046.2N 38.2W50 ktExtratropical
Oct 12, 18:0047.2N 33.5W45 ktExtratropical
Oct 13, 00:0048.0N 28.2W45 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic 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.

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