The 1991 season

Hurricane Claudette (1991)

Hurricane Claudette reached Category 4 in the North Atlantic between September 4, 1991 and September 14, 1991, with a lowest pressure of 944 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Claudette. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
September 4, 1991 to September 14, 1991
Peak strength
Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
Lowest pressure
944 mb (27.88 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1043 km (648 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
14.0
Fastest the center moved
25 kt (29 mph)
Identifier
AL061991

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
Sep 4, 12:0026.7N 55.9W25 kt1014 mbTropical depression
Sep 4, 18:0026.8N 55.7W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 00:0026.7N 55.6W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 06:0026.5N 55.7W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 12:0026.2N 56.0W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0026.0N 56.5W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0025.9N 57.1W50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0026.0N 57.9W60 kt987 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0026.2N 58.8W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Sep 6, 18:0026.4N 59.7W95 kt965 mbHurricane
Sep 7, 00:0026.6N 60.3W105 kt953 mbHurricane
Sep 7, 06:0026.8N 61.0W110 kt946 mbHurricane
Sep 7, 12:0027.2N 61.7W115 kt946 mbHurricane
Sep 7, 18:0027.7N 62.4W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 8, 00:0028.4N 62.8W90 kt962 mbHurricane
Sep 8, 06:0029.2N 63.1W85 kt964 mbHurricane
Sep 8, 12:0030.0N 63.3W85 kt966 mbHurricane
Sep 8, 18:0031.0N 63.2W80 kt967 mbHurricane
Sep 9, 00:0031.9N 62.5W80 kt972 mbHurricane
Sep 9, 06:0032.9N 61.4W75 kt976 mbHurricane
Sep 9, 12:0033.8N 60.5W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 9, 18:0034.2N 59.0W75 kt984 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 00:0034.3N 57.4W70 kt988 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 06:0033.9N 56.0W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0033.5N 54.0W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0033.4N 51.8W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0033.6N 48.8W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0033.9N 46.1W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0034.3N 43.4W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0034.5N 40.5W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 00:0034.5N 38.3W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 06:0034.2N 36.5W30 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 12:0033.9N 34.7W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 18:0034.3N 33.1W30 kt1013 mbExtratropical
Sep 13, 00:0034.7N 31.9W25 kt1014 mbExtratropical
Sep 13, 06:0035.2N 30.7W25 kt1015 mbExtratropical
Sep 13, 12:0035.6N 29.6W20 kt1016 mbExtratropical
Sep 13, 18:0036.0N 28.4W20 kt1017 mbExtratropical
Sep 14, 00:0036.2N 27.3W20 kt1017 mbExtratropical
Sep 14, 06:0036.3N 26.5W15 kt1017 mbExtratropical
Sep 14, 12:0036.8N 26.1W15 kt1018 mbExtratropical
Sep 14, 18:0037.0N 25.9W15 kt1018 mbExtratropical

Other North Atlantic 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.