The 1958 season

Super Typhoon Winnie (1958)

Super Typhoon Winnie reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between July 11, 1958 and July 18, 1958, with a lowest pressure of 925 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Winnie, 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
July 11, 1958 to July 18, 1958
Peak strength
Category 5, 150 kt (173 mph)
Lowest pressure
925 mb (27.32 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
19.9
Identifier
WP071958

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
Jul 11, 00:0016.0N 135.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 06:0016.4N 134.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 12:0016.8N 133.7E1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 18:0017.2N 133.0E998 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0017.6N 132.3E960 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0018.0N 131.9E50 kt960 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0019.0N 131.1E80 kt960 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0019.3N 130.6E115 kt960 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:0019.4N 130.0E120 kt925 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 06:0019.6N 129.5E110 kt925 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 12:0019.8N 128.7E100 kt925 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 18:0020.2N 127.8E100 kt930 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:0020.6N 126.9E100 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0020.9N 126.2E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0021.1N 125.8E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0021.6N 124.7E120 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0022.0N 123.7E150 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0022.5N 122.8E120 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0023.6N 122.1E150 kt950 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0024.0N 120.5E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0024.7N 118.5E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0025.0N 117.0E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0025.0N 116.0E50 kt985 mbMixed
Jul 16, 18:0026.0N 115.0E40 kt990 mbMixed
Jul 17, 00:0026.5N 114.0E30 kt990 mbMixed
Jul 17, 06:0027.0N 112.5E25 kt992 mbMixed
Jul 17, 12:0027.7N 113.2E995 mbMixed
Jul 17, 18:0028.7N 112.3E998 mbMixed
Jul 18, 00:0029.4N 111.1E998 mbMixed

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.