This is the Hurricane Warning
archive of hurricane Kyle.
The best data available was used
to create this archive, in order to
make it as educational as possible.
Meteorological Analysis
Kyle originated from a complex non-tropical interaction. A cold front stalled out
over the Atlantic ocean on September 15th SE of Bermuda. The front decayed
and became a trough of low pressure by the 18th. This trough was fairly inactive
until the 19th, when a shortwave caused a low pressure to form along the
trough about 750 nm ESE of Bermuda. Convective bands started to organize
around the center of this new low, although they were a bit displaced. When
winds reached 30 mph, the low became a subtropical depression, about 715 nm
ESE of Bermuda. The subtropical depression was initially in a weak steering flow
and made a small loop. While the depression was making this loop,
environmental conditions were favorable and the depression became subtropical
storm Kyle on the 21st. Kyle then started to develop convection closer to its
center and became a full fledged tropical storm on the 22nd. Kyle then began
a long, slow southwest movement and continued to strengthen. Kyle became a
hurricane on the 25th about 550 nm ESE of Bermuda. Kyle reached a peak
intensity of 85 mph with a pressure of 980 mb on the 16th before weakening due
to increasing shear. Kyle degenerated into a tropical storm on the 30th, and
began to move erratically towards the NW due to weak steering currents. Kyle
then moved SW towards the Florida coast, and when the storm was nearing the
coastline a trough caused Kyle to recurve towards the NE. Kyle
finally made landfall in McClellanville, South Carolina on the 11th as a weak
tropical storm. Kyle then moved offshore and skirted the coastline until making
landfall again in Long Beach, North Carolina. Kyle weakened into a tropical
depression on the 12th over North Carolina but, moved out over sea again and
became a tropical storm. Kyle finally exited the North Carolina region on the
12th, and merged with a cold front later that day 280 nm SSW of Nantucket,
Massachusetts. Kyle had an unusually long lifetime.
Casualty and Damage Overview
There are no deaths attributed to Kyle. Kyle also caused little damage, mostly
in the form of minor surge flooding along the southeast coast and some isolated
fresh water flooding. Most of the damage from Kyle was due to the 5 tornadoes
the storm spawned, 4 were in South Carolina and 1 in North Carolina. Total
damage from Kyle is estimated to be $5 million.
