The 1991 season

Hurricane Jimena (1991)

Hurricane Jimena reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between September 20, 1991 and October 2, 1991, with a lowest pressure of 945 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Jimena, 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
September 20, 1991 to October 2, 1991
Peak strength
Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
Lowest pressure
945 mb (27.91 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 567 km (352 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
33.3
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
EP121991

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 20, 18:0010.1N 100.1W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 00:0010.3N 100.7W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 06:0010.7N 101.5W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 12:0011.2N 102.3W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 18:0011.7N 103.0W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0012.3N 103.4W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0012.8N 103.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0013.1N 104.3W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0013.4N 104.9W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 23, 00:0013.4N 105.7W85 kt975 mbHurricane
Sep 23, 06:0013.5N 106.6W105 kt963 mbHurricane
Sep 23, 12:0013.5N 107.7W110 kt954 mbHurricane
Sep 23, 18:0013.4N 108.9W115 kt949 mbHurricane
Sep 24, 00:0013.4N 110.0W115 kt947 mbHurricane
Sep 24, 06:0013.4N 111.0W115 kt946 mbHurricane
Sep 24, 12:0013.4N 112.1W115 kt945 mbHurricane
Sep 24, 18:0013.4N 113.1W115 kt945 mbHurricane
Sep 25, 00:0013.3N 114.1W110 kt951 mbHurricane
Sep 25, 06:0013.4N 115.1W110 kt950 mbHurricane
Sep 25, 12:0013.4N 116.0W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Sep 25, 18:0013.5N 116.9W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 00:0013.7N 117.7W115 kt950 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 06:0013.9N 118.4W110 kt952 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 12:0014.2N 119.2W110 kt953 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 18:0014.5N 119.9W105 kt955 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 00:0014.8N 120.7W100 kt957 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 06:0015.2N 121.4W100 kt958 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 12:0015.4N 122.0W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 18:0015.5N 122.5W95 kt961 mbHurricane
Sep 28, 00:0015.5N 123.0W95 kt962 mbHurricane
Sep 28, 06:0015.5N 123.5W95 kt963 mbHurricane
Sep 28, 12:0015.6N 123.9W95 kt964 mbHurricane
Sep 28, 18:0015.7N 124.3W95 kt966 mbHurricane
Sep 29, 00:0015.8N 124.5W90 kt967 mbHurricane
Sep 29, 06:0016.0N 124.7W90 kt969 mbHurricane
Sep 29, 12:0016.3N 124.9W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Sep 29, 18:0016.7N 125.1W85 kt972 mbHurricane
Sep 30, 00:0017.2N 125.5W80 kt975 mbHurricane
Sep 30, 06:0017.7N 125.9W70 kt979 mbHurricane
Sep 30, 12:0018.5N 126.5W60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 18:0019.3N 127.4W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 1, 00:0020.0N 128.2W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 1, 06:0020.5N 129.1W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 12:0021.1N 130.0W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 18:0021.7N 130.8W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 2, 00:0022.5N 131.5W20 kt1011 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.