Typhoon Alice (1958)

Typhoon Alice was the first of three typhoons that would devastate Kanto region on Japan.[1] Alice caused damage to Tokyo as a minimal typhoon.[2][3][1][4]

Typhoon Alice
Category 4 super typhoon (SSHWS)
FormedJuly 13, 1958
DissipatedJuly 24, 1958
Highest winds1-minute sustained: 240 km/h (150 mph)
Lowest pressure925 hPa (mbar); 27.32 inHg
Fatalities26 died, 14 missing
Areas affectedJapan
Part of the 1958 Pacific typhoon season

Meteorological history
Map plotting the track and the intensity of the storm, according to the Saffir–Simpson scale

Alice developed on July 13 in the open western Pacific Ocean as a tropical depression. Tracking northwest, Alice became a tropical storm on July 14. Soon after becoming a tropical storm, Alice moved to the west and attained typhoon status on July 16. Alice rapidly intensified on July 19 to a 240 km/h (150 mph) super typhoon, and after turning to the northeast on the next day Alice weakened into a minimal typhoon. Alice made landfall on the Shizuoka Prefecture in eastern Japan on July 22 as a minimal typhoon and became extratropical on July 24 near the Kamchatka Peninsula.[5]

Impact

Shortly after landfall, storm surges occurred in Tokyo Bay,[6] causing floods in Kōtō and Edogawa on Shitamachi region.[7][8][9] In the area of Kameido (now a station), storm surge in Tokyo Bay reached 2.89 meters in height. Storm surges caused flooding of rivers around Tokyo Bay[8] that damaged 21 ships, damaged 27,673 hectare of crops, destroyed 1,089 and inundated 46,243 houses. Alice caused the deaths of 26 people in total, injuring 64 people and 14 people went missing.[1]

See also

References
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  2. "Typhoon Hits Tokyo (1958)". British Pathé. August 4, 1958. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
  3. "デジタル台風：台風195811号 (ALICE) - 災害情報". National Institute of Informatics. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  4. "台風11号被害（昭和33年）：逗子フォト | 逗子市" (in Japanese). Zushi Photo. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  5. 1958 Best Track
  6. "1958年台風第11号による東京湾の高潮について". Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  7. "[昭和33年8月] 中日ニュース No.237_3「台風・豪雨大あばれ」" (in Japanese). Chunichi-Eiga-Sha. August 1, 1958. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
  8. 丹保憲仁 (2012-11-01). 水の危機をどう救うか: 環境工学が変える未来 (in Japanese). PHP研究所. ISBN 978-4-569-80925-0.
  9. 江戸川区. "これまでの水害". 江戸川区 (in Japanese). Retrieved August 30, 2020.
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