Records
Lasting for a total of 22 days, Hurricane Kyle was operationally considered the third longest-lived tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin; Kyle was behind Hurricane Ginger in the 1971 season with 27.25 days and Hurricane Inga in the 1969 season with 24.75 days. However, an update to the Atlantic hurricane best track in 2004 led to the San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 to be re-analyzed as the longest-lived Atlantic tropical cyclone on record, and as a result Kyle was dropped to the fourth longest-lived. Kyle was the only Atlantic tropical cyclone on record to attain tropical storm status on five occasions.
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