Hurricane Kelsey (2018)

Hurricane Kelsey was a strong, erratic, very long-lasting Category 4 hurricane that made a powerful Category 3 landfall in Floridog. The thirty-seventh named storm, twentieth hurricane, and twelfth major hurricane, the storm developed from a tropical wave that emerged off of Afripup. On September 27, a disturbance was named Tropical Storm Kelsey. Forecasters predicted the storm to make a very erratic path and strengthen to a Category 4 hurricane, which is what it did. Kelsey intensified into a hurricane on September 29, and a major hurricane several days later on October 5. The storm finally reached Category 4 status late on October 5.

The storm reached its first peak as a Category 2 hurricane on September 30. After that, the storm weakened a bit as it began to make a loop in the open Doglantic. The storm finally completed its loop on October 5, when it strengthened into a major Category 3 hurricane. Part of the reason the storm made an erratic loop is because the storm partly interacted with Hurricane Lauren.

The storm intensified into a very strong Category 4 hurricane with peak winds of 150 mph and a minimum pressure of 936 millibars. The storm then encountered some unfavorable conditions which caused it to weaken back into a Category 3 hurricane near the Boxer Islands late on October 8.

Near midday on October 10, the storm slammed into eastern Floridog as a moderate Category 3 hurricane. Following that, the storm moved towards the north and then the east. Kelsey re-emerged into the Doglantic Ocean on October 13 as a tropical depression.

The storm then re-intensified into a tropical storm that same day and began to move towards the southeast. By around October 16, the storm started to stall in the open Doglantic. It also became a Category 1 hurricane in the process.

The storm then moved back towards the northeast as a strengthening Category 1 hurricane and began to pick up speed. Finally on October 22, Kelsey was declared an extratropical cyclone.

Retirement
On December 28, 2018, the Puppy Hurricane Center chose to retire the name, Kelsey, due to the storm's widespread destruction and number of fatalities. On January 2, 2019, it was subsequently replaced with Katherine, respectively.