The 1991 season

Hurricane Guillermo (1991)

Hurricane Guillermo reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between August 4, 1991 and August 10, 1991, with a lowest pressure of 983 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Guillermo, 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
August 4, 1991 to August 10, 1991
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
983 mb (29.03 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 330 km (205 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.0
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
EP081991

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 4, 00:0012.3N 98.4W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 4, 06:0012.9N 99.4W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 4, 12:0013.4N 100.2W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 4, 18:0013.8N 101.1W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 00:0014.3N 101.9W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 06:0014.7N 102.8W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 12:0015.2N 103.7W65 kt993 mbHurricane
Aug 5, 18:0015.6N 104.8W70 kt985 mbHurricane
Aug 6, 00:0015.9N 106.3W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Aug 6, 06:0016.2N 107.7W70 kt983 mbHurricane
Aug 6, 12:0016.4N 109.0W70 kt983 mbHurricane
Aug 6, 18:0016.5N 110.2W70 kt983 mbHurricane
Aug 7, 00:0016.6N 111.4W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Aug 7, 06:0016.8N 112.7W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Aug 7, 12:0017.0N 114.0W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 18:0017.2N 115.3W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 00:0017.3N 116.6W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 06:0017.4N 117.8W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 12:0017.5N 119.1W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 18:0017.5N 120.4W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 00:0017.5N 121.9W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 06:0017.4N 123.5W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0017.3N 125.3W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 9, 18:0017.0N 127.1W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 10, 00:0016.5N 128.9W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 10, 06:0016.1N 130.5W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 10, 12:0015.6N 132.0W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 10, 18:0015.2N 133.6W25 kt1010 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.