The 1991 season

Typhoon Fred (1991)

Typhoon Fred reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between August 8, 1991 and August 18, 1991, with a lowest pressure of 960 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Fred. 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 8, 1991 to August 18, 1991
Peak strength
Category 2, 95 kt (109 mph)
Lowest pressure
960 mb (28.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
9.1
Identifier
WP121991

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 8, 00:0010.3N 132.9E15 ktNot reported
Aug 8, 06:0010.4N 131.9E15 ktNot reported
Aug 8, 12:0010.6N 131.0E15 ktNot reported
Aug 8, 18:0010.8N 130.2E15 ktNot reported
Aug 9, 00:0011.0N 129.5E15 ktNot reported
Aug 9, 06:0011.2N 128.8E20 ktNot reported
Aug 9, 12:0011.5N 128.1E20 ktNot reported
Aug 9, 18:0012.0N 127.6E20 ktNot reported
Aug 10, 00:0012.5N 127.0E20 ktNot reported
Aug 10, 06:0013.2N 126.5E20 ktNot reported
Aug 10, 12:0013.8N 126.0E20 ktNot reported
Aug 10, 18:0014.4N 125.5E20 ktNot reported
Aug 11, 00:0015.2N 125.0E20 ktNot reported
Aug 11, 06:0016.0N 124.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 12:0016.5N 123.7E25 kt1002 mbMixed
Aug 11, 18:0017.0N 123.2E25 kt1002 mbMixed
Aug 12, 00:0017.3N 122.9E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 06:0017.7N 122.7E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0018.1N 122.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 18:0018.4N 121.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 00:0018.6N 120.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 06:0018.7N 119.6E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 12:0018.8N 119.0E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0018.9N 118.4E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0019.1N 117.7E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0019.5N 117.1E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0019.9N 116.4E60 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0020.0N 115.6E65 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0020.1N 114.7E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0020.3N 113.8E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0020.5N 112.7E80 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0020.4N 111.5E90 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0020.2N 110.3E95 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0019.9N 109.2E95 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0019.4N 108.6E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0018.9N 107.9E85 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0018.5N 107.4E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0018.2N 106.7E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0017.9N 105.7E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0017.7N 104.2E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0017.4N 103.0E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0017.0N 102.2E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0017.0N 101.5E998 mbTropical 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.