The name Kyle has been used for four
tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depend ...
s in the Atlantic Ocean since 1996, the year in which Kyle replaced
Klaus
Klaus is a German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas.
Notable persons whose family name is Klaus
* Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American baseba ...
on the rotating six-year cycle of names used in the North Atlantic basin.
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Tropical Storm Kyle (1996)
The 1996 Atlantic hurricane season had the most major hurricanes since 1950, which are Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The season was above-average, featuring a total of thirteen named storms, nine hurricanes, and six ma ...
– formed in the western Caribbean and made landfall over Guatemala and Honduras as a weakening storm, causing no significant damage.
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Hurricane Kyle (2002)
Hurricane Kyle was the fifth-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 ...
– long-lived hurricane, bobbed in and out of the Carolinas, causing $5 million damage, mostly from tornadoes.
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Hurricane Kyle (2008)
Hurricane Kyle was a Category 1 hurricane that caused heavy rain and flooding in Puerto Rico in its formative stage and brought hurricane-force winds to Nova Scotia while extratropical. The eleventh tropical storm and sixth hurricane of the 2008 ...
– formed north of Hispaniola and made landfall in Nova Scotia as a minimal hurricane.
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Tropical Storm Kyle (2020)
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season featured a total of 31 tropical or subtropical cyclones, making it the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record. All but one cyclone became a named storm. Of the 30 named storms, 14 develo ...
– earliest eleventh named storm on record, formed off the coast of New Jersey and dissipated out in the ocean.
The name Kyle has also been used for two tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific Ocean.
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Typhoon Kyle (1990)
The 1990 Pacific typhoon season was another active season. It has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1990, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between May and November. These dates conventionally delimit ...
(T9023, 25W)
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Typhoon Kyle (1993)
Typhoon Kyle, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Luring, was the first of five deadly tropical cyclones that affected and impacted the Philippines and Vietnam during the 1993 Pacific typhoon season. The twenty-seventh named storm and thirteenth ...
(T9325, 34W, Luring) – struck the Philippines and Vietnam.
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