The beginnings of this tropical cyclone were along an old frontal boundary southeast of Bermuda on the 12th. Convection increased as it moved southwest and west over the next few days. By the morning of the 15th, a low was located a couple hundred miles east of the Bahamas. By the next day, it is estimated the cyclone developed into a tropical depression 175 nm east of Nassau. The system turned to the west and west-northwest, and developed into a tropical storm on the 16th. The next day, a central dense overcast was noted, and Bob had become a hurricane as it turned northward. A deep trough over the East had picked up the storm, and it accelerated northward. Bob intensified into a major hurricane east of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, then passed over cooler shelf waters.Weakening ensued as it approached New England, clipping the east side of Long Island. It came ashore again over Block Island before striking Newport, Rhode Island on the afternoon of the 19th as a category 2 hurricane. It made a final landfall as a tropical storm late on the 19th near Rockport, Maine, later crossing Maine,New Brunswick, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and northern Newfoundland. It crossed the Atlantic as a nontropical low in the westerlies, dissipating near the coast of Portugal on the 29th. Below is the track of this cyclone, provided by the National Hurricane Center.

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Beulah intially developed into a tropical depression on the 5th as is was approaching the Lesser Antilles. It strengthened into a tropical storm in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the 7th, becoming a hurricane late on the 8th as it tracked westward. Strengthening continued into the 10th before the storm approached and interacted with the mountanous island of Hispanola. Below is a map showing the rainfall in Puerto Rico as Beulah passed by to the south, constructed using data from the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina.

Moving across the western Caribbean as now a tropical storm, it slowly restrengthened into a hurricane, crossing over the Yucatan peninsula on a west-northwest track on the 15th. The track bent more to the north, moving north-northwest at 10 mph across the southern Gulf of Mexico.
It deepened into a potent hurricane until it hit the continental shelf, then weakened slowly as it moved west and southwest through southern Texas. It produced a record number of tornadoes, with some counting as many as 146 separate event in this storm,making it the most tornadic producing storm on record for the United States. Winds gusted to 136 mph on the S.S. Shirley Lykes in the Port of Brownsville, with the Brownsville Weather Office recording gusts to 109 mph…their winds could have been higher since it was noted after the storm that their anemometer took on a 30 degree tilt during its fury. The graphics below show the storm total rainfall for Beulah, using data from the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina and Comision Nacional del Agua, the parent agency of Mexico’s national weather service. Note the maximum across southern Texas…where Pettus received over 27 inches of rain, most likely due to the shifting of the track from north-northwest to south,which allowed rain bands to become essentially stationary across Bee county, Texas.

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