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NHC AL031991 · Atlantic basin

Hurricane Bob (1991)

August 16, 1991 – August 29, 1991

Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated

Hurricane Bob peaked at Category 3 with 115 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 807 US cities, 679 of them while still at hurricane strength.

Bob in the record

HURDAT2 tracks Bob from August 16, 1991 to August 29, 1991; its peak was 115 mph (Category 3). HURDAT2 marks 3 landfalls within 50 miles of a US city on this site, the first on August 19 at 104 mph (Category 2), 13 miles from Charlestown, RI. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 807 US cities, in 7 states, most in Massachusetts (302) and Maine (156). The strongest pass was 113 mph (Category 3) 46 miles from Nags Head, NC; the centre came closest to Berkley, MA, less than a mile away.

Peak strength
Category 3

115 mph

Cities within 75 mi
807
At hurricane strength
679

when closest

States
7

Cities Bob passed near, strongest first

North Carolina (5)

New York (85)

and 25 more

Connecticut (118)

and 58 more

Rhode Island (49)

Massachusetts (302)

and 242 more

New Hampshire (92)

and 32 more

Maine (156)

and 96 more

Other storms of the 1991 season

About this record

The track is the National Hurricane Center's best-track record, revised after the season with every observation available. Strength at a city is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, not the wind that city measured.