Hurricane Bob - July 21-27, 1985
Bob's development was spurred by a tropical wave which entered the
eastern Gulf of Mexico on July
20th. On the 21st, a low level circulation formed off southwest
Florida, reaching tropical depression
status. By the afternoon of the 22nd, the depression had
strengthened into a tropical storm. Moving
eastward, Bob moved across south Florida on the 23rd and turned
northward as it neared the Gold
Coast. Intensifying as it was edging offshore Florida, Bob became
a hurricane on the afternoon of
the 24th to the east of Jacksonville, and remained a hurricane until
landfall in South Carolina on the
night of the 25th. Slowly curving north-northeast, Bob's surface
low weakened as it paralleled,
and ultimately absorbed, by a frontal wave to its northwest on the
morning of the 26th. Its area
of weather remained separate, moving anticylonically around a ridge to
its southeast through southern
New England. Below is the track of this cyclone, constructed from
data provided by the
National
Hurricane Center.
![Hurricane Bob (1985) Track](http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/bob1985trk.gif)
The graphic belows show the storm total rainfall for Bob.
Note the maxima lie mainly to the right of the
cyclone's track.