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In Rhode Island, where the hurricane made landfall, Bob caused about 200,000 power outages; [21] about 60% of residents in the state and southeastern Massachusetts were left without power. [47] During the storm, treatment plants spilled over 100 million tons of sewage due to overflow into Narragansett Bay. [42] Damage totaled over $115 million ...
Hurricane Bob was the first of six hurricanes to strike the United States during the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season. The second tropical storm and first hurricane of the year, Bob developed from a tropical wave on July 21 in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Bob began moving east, making landfall southwestern Florida as a weak tropical storm. The ...
This made Bob the first July hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico since Hurricane Debra in 1959. [5] Though the hurricane's maximum sustained winds would hold steady at 75 mph (120 km/h) for approximately the ensuing twelve hours, the storm's barometric pressure would fluctuate before reaching a minimum of 981 mbar (hPa; 28.98 inHg) at 1200 UTC that ...
Historically, hurricanes have hit the Cape and Islands in 16-year intervals. The last one, Hurricane Bob, hit the region 30 years ago.
Hurricane Bob, in 1991, was the last hurricane to make landfall in Rhode Island, a state that historically averages a hurricane every 20 years, noted Alex DaSilva, lead hurricane forecaster for ...
August 19, 1991: Hurricane Bob comes within a short distance of making landfall on the eastern tip of Long Island as a category 2 hurricane. Heavy rainfall up to 7 inches (175 mm) and high wind gusts causes two deaths and $75 million (1991 USD, $117 million 2007 USD), as well as severe beach erosion which came as a result of storm surge up to 6 ...
Lee remained a Category 1 hurricane late Friday night with sustained winds of 80 mph (128 kph). ... Hurricanes Carol and Edna hit the region 11 days apart in 1954 and Hurricane Bob decimated Block ...
Hurricane Bob, the most recent tropical cyclone to make landfall in New England at hurricane strength on August 19, 1991. A New England hurricane is a tropical cyclone originating in the Atlantic Ocean that affects the U.S. states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine.