The 1958 season

Typhoon Marie (1958)

Typhoon Marie reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between October 23, 1958 and November 4, 1958, with a lowest pressure of 940 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Marie, 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
October 23, 1958 to November 4, 1958
Peak strength
Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
Lowest pressure
940 mb (27.76 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 797 km (495 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
33.2
Identifier
WP191958

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 23, 18:0012.0N 161.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0012.1N 160.3E1002 mbMixed
Oct 24, 06:0012.4N 159.6E1002 mbMixed
Oct 24, 12:0012.7N 159.1E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 18:0013.1N 158.7E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 00:0013.6N 158.2E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 06:0014.1N 157.8E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 12:0014.5N 157.4E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 18:0014.9N 157.1E980 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 00:0015.3N 156.5E50 kt970 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 06:0015.5N 156.0E75 kt955 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 12:0015.8N 155.7E90 kt950 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 18:0016.0N 155.6E105 kt950 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 00:0016.8N 155.6E110 kt945 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 06:0017.2N 155.4E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 12:0017.2N 154.8E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 18:0016.7N 154.5E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 00:0016.8N 155.3E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0017.4N 155.5E110 kt945 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 12:0018.2N 155.3E110 kt950 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 18:0019.0N 155.7E110 kt955 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 00:0019.7N 155.8E110 kt955 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 06:0020.3N 155.9E110 kt950 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 12:0020.8N 155.8E105 kt950 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 18:0021.4N 155.5E100 kt950 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 00:0021.9N 155.0E95 kt945 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 06:0022.1N 154.5E90 kt945 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 12:0022.2N 153.8E80 kt945 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 18:0022.1N 153.1E80 kt945 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 00:0022.1N 152.6E75 kt950 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 06:0022.2N 151.9E90 kt950 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 12:0022.2N 150.8E105 kt950 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 18:0022.0N 149.6E110 kt950 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 00:0022.5N 148.5E120 kt945 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 06:0023.2N 148.2E120 kt940 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 12:0023.9N 147.2E115 kt940 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 18:0025.5N 147.0E105 kt940 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 00:0027.4N 147.4E100 kt945 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 06:0030.1N 147.1E95 kt950 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 12:0032.8N 148.7E85 kt960 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 18:0034.4N 151.6E80 kt970 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 00:0035.9N 155.0E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 06:0037.5N 158.5E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 12:0037.0N 164.0E980 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 18:0037.0N 169.0E980 mbExtratropical
Nov 4, 00:0037.0N 174.0E990 mbExtratropical
Nov 4, 06:0036.3N 179.5E990 mbExtratropical
Nov 4, 12:0036.0N 185.0EExtratropical

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.