MIAMI, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Tropical storm Kyle moved off the mid-Atlantic coast near the Virginia-Maryland state line with 45 mph winds Saturday and was about to disappear into another weather system, the National Hurricane Center said.
Kyle brushed along the Carolina coast Friday, causing some damage but no deaths or serious injuries. Kyle flooded streets and homes in Charleston, S.C., among other places and one possible tornado in Georgetown, S.C., felled power lines and trees.
At 11 a.m. Saturday, Kyle was located at near latitude 37.3 north, longitude 73.1 west or about 320 miles south-southwest of Nantucket, Mass.
It was moving northeast near 23 mph, and forecasters said it was rapidly becoming extra-tropical.
"Dangerous surf conditions and rip tides could affect portions of the U.S. East Coat from the DelMarva Peninsula to Cape Cod, Mass.," said forecaster Lixion Avila.
"This will be the last advisory on Kyle, and I hope there will be no more surprises," Avila said.
Kyle lasted for 22 days, and had the third longest life among named storms. Ginger was first with 28 days in 1971 and Inga lasted 25 days in 1969 for second.
Kyle was difficult to forecast throughout the three weeks of its life, because of weak steering currents that allowed it to wander aimlessly around the Atlantic in the general vicinity of Bermuda.
Then when it began to approach the Florida-Georgia-South Carolina coast as a tropical depression with 30 mph, it quickly strengthened into a 45 mph tropical storm.
