Hurricane Jessica (2028)

Hurricane Jessica was a late-season and unusual tropical cyclone that developed in late November during the 2028 Atlantic hurricane season. The twelfth and final named storm and sixth hurricane of the season, Jessica developed as a subtropical storm within a larger extratropical cyclone off the North Carolina coast on November 2. Jessica gradually became more independent of its parent system, and eventually strengthened into a minimal Category 1 hurricane. Operationally, Jessica was classified as a fully tropical cyclone when it reached hurricane strength. However, in post-storm analysis it was determined that Jessica failed to transition to a fully tropical cyclone and thus remained a subtropical storm for its lifetime as a named system. Because the National Hurricane Center does not recognize subtropical cyclones with hurricane-force winds, Jessica was not reclassified.