The 1991 season

Hurricane Fefa (1991)

Hurricane Fefa reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between July 29, 1991 and August 8, 1991, with a lowest pressure of 959 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Fefa. 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 29, 1991 to August 8, 1991
Peak strength
Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Lowest pressure
959 mb (28.32 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 15 km (9 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
19.6
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
EP071991

Radar at PHWA as it neared land, Aug 8, 00:00 UTC

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
Jul 29, 06:0010.8N 107.2W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 29, 12:0011.5N 108.5W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 29, 18:0012.1N 109.7W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0012.8N 110.8W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0013.2N 111.8W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0013.4N 112.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 18:0013.7N 113.8W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 00:0014.0N 114.8W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 06:0014.6N 115.9W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 12:0015.0N 116.9W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Jul 31, 18:0015.3N 118.0W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Aug 1, 00:0015.5N 119.1W75 kt982 mbHurricane
Aug 1, 06:0015.8N 120.1W80 kt977 mbHurricane
Aug 1, 12:0016.1N 121.0W85 kt971 mbHurricane
Aug 1, 18:0016.3N 121.8W95 kt963 mbHurricane
Aug 2, 00:0016.6N 122.7W105 kt959 mbHurricane
Aug 2, 06:0016.9N 123.6W105 kt960 mbHurricane
Aug 2, 12:0017.1N 124.6W100 kt962 mbHurricane
Aug 2, 18:0017.3N 125.7W95 kt967 mbHurricane
Aug 3, 00:0017.4N 126.8W90 kt972 mbHurricane
Aug 3, 06:0017.5N 128.0W80 kt977 mbHurricane
Aug 3, 12:0017.6N 129.4W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Aug 3, 18:0017.7N 130.9W80 kt978 mbHurricane
Aug 4, 00:0017.8N 132.5W85 kt975 mbHurricane
Aug 4, 06:0017.9N 134.0W85 kt972 mbHurricane
Aug 4, 12:0018.0N 135.5W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Aug 4, 18:0018.0N 137.1W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Aug 5, 00:0018.1N 138.6W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Aug 5, 06:0018.1N 140.3W85 kt972 mbHurricane
Aug 5, 12:0018.1N 142.0W80 kt975 mbHurricane
Aug 5, 18:0018.2N 143.2W70 kt977 mbHurricane
Aug 6, 00:0018.3N 144.6W65 kt980 mbHurricane
Aug 6, 06:0018.3N 145.9W60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 12:0018.3N 147.0W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 18:0018.3N 148.7W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 00:0018.3N 149.9W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 06:0018.4N 151.4W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 12:0018.5N 153.0W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 18:0018.8N 154.1W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 8, 00:0019.3N 155.0W25 kt1008 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.