Hurricane Bob
One of the tropical cyclone disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $3.5 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($1.5 billion at the time) and 18 deaths.
What the offices filed during it
The 11 most significant tropical cyclone episodes filed in these dates, colored by kind.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Losses, 2024 dollars
- $3.5 billion
- Losses at the time
- $1.5 billion
- Deaths
- 18
The losses and deaths are NCEI’s, counting everything the disaster did. The episodes below are only what the Weather Service filed in its Storm Events record, which counts damage differently and often not at all, so the two never add up and are shown apart.
By state, as filed
| State | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 7 | 0 | 0 | $258,000 |
| Indiana | 3 | 0 | 0 | $28,000 |
| Maryland | 10 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Ohio | 6 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Michigan | 12 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| New Jersey | 1 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| Florida | 2 | 0 | 0 | $250 |
| New York | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| South Dakota | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Episode by episode
- Tornado in South Dakota, August 16, 1991
- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, August 17, 1991
- Tornadoes in North Carolina, August 18, 1991
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Indiana, August 19, 1991
- Tornado and Hail in Ohio, August 19, 1991
- Tornadoes in New York, August 19, 1991
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Florida, August 19, 1991
- Tornado in New Jersey, August 19, 1991
- Tornado and Hail in Maryland, August 20, 1991
- Tornado in North Carolina, August 20, 1991
- Tornado in Ohio, August 20, 1991
More
Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 1991The 1991 hurricane seasonTornadoes in 1991
Sources
NOAA NCEI, U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (2025), https://doi.org/10.25921/stkw-7w73, and the Storm Events Database for the episodes.