The 1991 season

Tropical Storm Doug (1991)

Tropical Storm Doug peaked at 35 kt in the Western Pacific between August 7, 1991 and August 11, 1991.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Doug. 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
Western Pacific
Dates
August 7, 1991 to August 11, 1991
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1061 km (659 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Identifier
WP101991

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
Aug 7, 06:0025.0N 164.6E20 ktTropical storm
Aug 7, 12:0025.2N 164.2E20 ktTropical storm
Aug 7, 18:0025.7N 163.7E20 ktTropical storm
Aug 8, 00:0026.1N 163.0E20 ktMixed
Aug 8, 06:0026.5N 162.4E20 ktMixed
Aug 8, 12:0026.9N 161.5E25 ktMixed
Aug 8, 18:0027.3N 160.5E25 ktMixed
Aug 9, 00:0028.1N 159.6E30 ktMixed
Aug 9, 06:0028.9N 159.0E30 ktTropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0029.8N 158.3E35 ktTropical storm
Aug 9, 18:0030.9N 157.4E35 ktTropical storm
Aug 10, 00:0032.3N 156.5E35 ktTropical storm
Aug 10, 06:0033.9N 156.4E35 ktTropical storm
Aug 10, 12:0035.6N 156.8E30 ktTropical storm
Aug 10, 18:0037.4N 158.0E30 ktTropical storm
Aug 11, 00:0039.3N 159.6E30 ktTropical storm

Other Western 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.