Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 26, 2011

Hurricane Kyle was the fourth longest-lived Atlantic tropical or subtropical cyclone on record. The eleventh named storm and third hurricane of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season, Kyle developed as a subtropical cyclone on September 20 to the east-southeast of Bermuda. It transitioned into a tropical cyclone and became a hurricane on September 25, then tracked westward for the next two weeks. On October 11, the cyclone turned northeastward and made landfalls near Charleston, South Carolina, and Long Beach, North Carolina, at tropical storm status. After 22 days as a cyclone, it dissipated on October 12 as it was absorbed by an approaching cold front. Kyle brought light precipitation to Bermuda, but no significant damage was reported there. Moderate rainfall accompanied its two landfalls in the Carolinas, causing localized flash flooding and road closures. Kyle spawned at least four tornadoes, the costliest of which struck Georgetown, South Carolina; it damaged 106 buildings and destroyed seven others, causing eight injuries. Overall damage totaled about $5 million (2002 USD, $6.1 million 2011 USD). Though no direct deaths were reported, the remnants of Kyle contributed to one indirect death in the seas off the British Isles. (more...)

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