page_title: Timeline of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season / Timeline of events / October
caption_attribution_description: A tightly-wound power-house, Hurricane Lili reached Hurricane 4 status on October 2, 2002—the day this image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on the Terra satellite. Lili remained at Category 4 status even as it approached the Gulf Coast of the United States, but dropped to Category 2 before actually making landfall. In this image, Lili appears poised in the center of the Gulf, and bands of clouds are touching Texas and Louisiana in the northwest quadrant of the storm and the Yucatan Peninsula in the south.
context_page_description: The 2002 Atlantic hurricane season was an average Atlantic hurricane season in which twelve named storms formed. Although Tropical Storm Arthur formed on July 14, the season officially began on June 1 and ended on November 30, dates that conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones develop in the Atlantic basin. The season's final storm, Tropical Depression Fourteen, dissipated on October 16.
  The season produced fourteen tropical depressions, of which twelve intensified into tropical storms, four became hurricanes, and two became major hurricanes. The two most significant storms of the season, in terms of loss of life and damage, were hurricanes Isidore and Lili. Hurricane Isidore was an unusually large storm and attained maximum sustained winds of 125 mph, becoming one of only two major hurricanes during the season. Hurricane Lili was the strongest hurricane during the season, with winds reaching 145 mph before moving ashore Louisiana as a much weaker system.
context_section_description: October 1
  1100 UTC (7:00 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Lili intensifies into a Category 2 hurricane and makes a second landfall on the coast of the Isle of Youth, Cuba, with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h).
  1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. AST) – Tropical Depression Kyle regains tropical storm status.
  1400 UTC (10:00 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Lili makes a third landfall near Pinar del Río Province, Cuba, with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h).
  October 2
   
  0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Lili intensifies into a Category 3 hurricane.
  1800 UTC (1:00 p.m. CDT) – Hurricane Lili intensifies into a Category 4 hurricane.
  2013 UTC (3:13 p.m. CDT) – Hurricane Lili reaches its peak intensity with winds of 145 mph (230 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 938 mbar (hPa; 27.7 inHg).
  October 3
  0600 UTC (1:00 a.m. CDT) – Hurricane Lili weakens to a Category 3 hurricane.
  1200 UTC (7:00 a.m. CDT) – Hurricane Lili weakens to a Category 1 hurricane.
  1300 UTC (8:00 a.m. CDT) – Hurricane Lili makes a fourth and final landfall near Intracoastal City, Louisiana, with winds of 90 mph (150 km/h).
  1800 UTC (1:00 p.m. CDT) – Hurricane Lili weakens to a tropical storm.
  October 4
  0600 UTC (1:00 a.m. CDT) – Tropical Storm Lili weakens to a tropical depression.
  1800 UTC (1:00 p.m. CDT) – Tropical Depression Lili becomes absorbed within a larger extratropical area of low pressure near the Tennessee–Arkansas border.
  October 5
  0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. AST) – Tropical Storm Kyle weakens to a tropical depression.
  October 6
  1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. AST) – Tropical Depression Kyle regains tropical storm status.
  October 8
  1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Kyle weakens to a tropical depression.
  October 11
  0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Kyle regains tropical storm status.
  1700 UTC (1:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Kyle makes its first landfall near McClellanville, South Carolina, with winds of 40 mph (65 km/h).
  2200 UTC (6:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Kyle makes its second and final landfall near Long Beach, North Carolina, with winds of 40 mph  (65 km/h).
  October 12
  0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT October 11) – Tropical Storm Kyle weakens to a tropical depression near Surf City, North Carolina.
  0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Kyle regains tropical storm status over Pamlico Sound, North Carolina.
  1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Kyle merges with a cold front roughly 280 mi (450 km) south-southwest of Nantucket, Massachusetts, making it the third longest-lived Atlantic tropical cyclone in recorded history.
    
  October 14
  1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Fourteen develops from an area of low pressure roughly 120 mi (195 km) north-northeast of Cabo Gracias a Dios.
  October 15
  1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Fourteen reaches its peak intensity with winds of 35 mph (55 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1002 mbar (hPa; 29.59 inHg).
  October 16
  1600 UTC (12:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Fourteen makes landfall near Cienfuegos, Cuba, with winds of 30 mph (45 km/h).
  October 17
  0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT October 16) – Tropical Depression Fourteen is absorbed by a cold front over Cuba.
caption: Hurricane Lili near peak intensity as the strongest hurricane of the 2002 season on October 2, 2002
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