The 1991 season

Tropical Storm Blanca (1991)

Tropical Storm Blanca peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between June 14, 1991 and June 22, 1991, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Blanca, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1991 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
June 14, 1991 to June 22, 1991
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 810 km (503 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.5
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP021991

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
Jun 14, 18:0010.2N 103.0W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 15, 00:0010.1N 103.5W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 15, 06:0010.1N 104.0W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 15, 12:0010.2N 104.5W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 15, 18:0010.3N 105.0W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 16, 00:0010.7N 105.8W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 16, 06:0011.1N 106.6W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 16, 12:0011.5N 107.5W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jun 16, 18:0011.9N 108.5W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jun 17, 00:0012.3N 109.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 06:0012.6N 110.4W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 12:0012.9N 111.4W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 18:0013.1N 112.4W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 00:0013.3N 113.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 06:0013.4N 114.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 12:0013.4N 115.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 18:0013.4N 116.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 00:0013.3N 117.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 06:0013.1N 118.4W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 12:0012.9N 119.4W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 18:0012.7N 120.4W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 20, 00:0012.6N 121.5W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 20, 06:0012.7N 122.6W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 20, 12:0013.0N 123.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 20, 18:0013.4N 124.6W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jun 21, 00:0013.7N 125.6W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 21, 06:0014.0N 126.7W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 21, 12:0014.2N 127.7W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jun 21, 18:0014.3N 129.0W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jun 22, 00:0014.5N 130.5W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1991

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.