The 1991 season
94 tropical cyclones worldwide, from NOAA’s IBTrACS archive.
Radar
Reflectivity now across the United States. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.











Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
Deaths and damage
3 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 139,008 people in all.
The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.
North Atlantic
12 storms, 8 at tropical storm strength, 4 hurricanes, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 34.0.
- Tropical Storm AnaNorth Atlantic · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1991
- Hurricane BobNorth Atlantic · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1991
- Hurricane ClaudetteNorth Atlantic · 1991
- Tropical Storm DannyNorth Atlantic · 1991
- Tropical Storm ErikaNorth Atlantic · 1991
- Tropical Storm FabianNorth Atlantic · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1991
- Hurricane GraceNorth Atlantic · 1991
- Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1991
Eastern Pacific
17 storms, 15 at tropical storm strength, 11 hurricanes, 5 major; accumulated cyclone energy 190.4.
- Tropical Storm AndresEastern Pacific · 1991
- Tropical Storm BlancaEastern Pacific · 1991
- Hurricane CarlosEastern Pacific · 1991
- Hurricane DeloresEastern Pacific · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1991
- Hurricane EnriqueEastern Pacific · 1991
- Hurricane FefaEastern Pacific · 1991
- Hurricane GuillermoEastern Pacific · 1991
- Tropical Storm HildaEastern Pacific · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1991
- Tropical Storm IgnacioEastern Pacific · 1991
- Hurricane JimenaEastern Pacific · 1991
- Hurricane KevinEastern Pacific · 1991
- Hurricane LindaEastern Pacific · 1991
- Hurricane MartyEastern Pacific · 1991
- Hurricane NoraEastern Pacific · 1991
- Hurricane ZeldaEastern Pacific · 1991
Western Pacific
33 storms, 28 at tropical storm strength, 19 typhoons, 11 major; accumulated cyclone energy 407.7.
- Tropical Storm SharonWestern Pacific · 1991
- Typhoon TimWestern Pacific · 1991
- Tropical Storm VanessaWestern Pacific · 1991
- Super Typhoon WaltWestern Pacific · 1991
- Typhoon YunyaWestern Pacific · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1991
- Typhoon ZekeWestern Pacific · 1991
- Typhoon AmyWestern Pacific · 1991 · 136 deaths
- Typhoon BrendanWestern Pacific · 1991
- Typhoon CaitlinWestern Pacific · 1991
- Tropical Depression BrendanWestern Pacific · 1991
- Tropical Storm DougWestern Pacific · 1991
- Typhoon FredWestern Pacific · 1991
- Typhoon EllieWestern Pacific · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1991
- Typhoon GladysWestern Pacific · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1991
- Tropical Storm HarryWestern Pacific · 1991
- Typhoon IvyWestern Pacific · 1991
- Tropical Storm JoelWestern Pacific · 1991
- Typhoon KinnaWestern Pacific · 1991
- Super Typhoon MireilleWestern Pacific · 1991
- Tropical Storm LukeWestern Pacific · 1991
- Typhoon NatWestern Pacific · 1991
- Typhoon PatWestern Pacific · 1991
- Typhoon OrchidWestern Pacific · 1991
- Super Typhoon RuthWestern Pacific · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1991
- Super Typhoon SethWestern Pacific · 1991
- Tropical Storm ThelmaWestern Pacific · 1991
- Tropical Storm VerneWestern Pacific · 1991
- Tropical Storm WildaWestern Pacific · 1991
- Super Typhoon YuriWestern Pacific · 1991
North Indian
9 storms, 4 at tropical storm strength, 1 at hurricane force, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 20.3.
- Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 1991
- Unnamed cycloneNorth Indian · 1991 · 138,866 deaths
- Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 1991
- Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 1991
South Indian
16 storms, 13 at tropical storm strength, 6 at hurricane force, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 105.2.
- Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1991
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 1991
- Tropical Storm LaurenceSouth Indian · 1991
- Cyclone AlisonSouth Indian · 1991
- Cyclone BellaSouth Indian · 1991
- Tropical Storm ChrisSouth Indian · 1991
- Tropical Storm CynthiaSouth Indian · 1991
- Cyclone DebraSouth Indian · 1991
- Tropical Storm ElmaSouth Indian · 1991
- Cyclone FatimaSouth Indian · 1991
- Cyclone ErrolSouth Indian · 1991
- Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1991
- Cyclone MarianSouth Indian · 1991
- Tropical Storm FifiSouth Indian · 1991
- Tropical Storm GritelleSouth Indian · 1991
South Pacific
7 storms, 5 at tropical storm strength, 3 at hurricane force, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 50.8.
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.