The 1991 season

Hurricane Nora (1991)

Hurricane Nora reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between November 7, 1991 and November 12, 1991, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Nora, 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
November 7, 1991 to November 12, 1991
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 186 km (116 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.2
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
EP161991

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
Nov 7, 00:0010.1N 104.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Nov 7, 06:0010.2N 105.3W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Nov 7, 12:0011.0N 106.3W35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 18:0011.7N 107.3W40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 00:0012.2N 108.3W45 kt993 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 06:0012.3N 109.3W50 kt991 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 12:0012.2N 110.2W50 kt989 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 18:0012.1N 110.9W55 kt986 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 00:0012.2N 111.6W60 kt983 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 06:0012.4N 112.3W70 kt979 mbHurricane
Nov 9, 12:0012.8N 112.8W80 kt976 mbHurricane
Nov 9, 18:0013.3N 113.3W90 kt971 mbHurricane
Nov 10, 00:0013.8N 113.6W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Nov 10, 06:0014.2N 113.7W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Nov 10, 12:0014.6N 113.9W85 kt971 mbHurricane
Nov 10, 18:0014.9N 114.1W75 kt975 mbHurricane
Nov 11, 00:0015.1N 114.1W60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Nov 11, 06:0015.3N 113.8W45 kt987 mbTropical storm
Nov 11, 12:0015.7N 113.2W35 kt993 mbTropical storm
Nov 11, 18:0016.2N 112.3W30 kt997 mbTropical depression
Nov 12, 00:0017.1N 111.3W30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Nov 12, 06:0018.3N 110.5W30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Nov 12, 12:0019.7N 109.7W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Nov 12, 18:0021.4N 109.0W30 kt1002 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.