Do tropical cyclones lose intensity when they travel over land?
There are times when the storm will weaken into a mere area of disturbed weather over land, then re-enter the water later and regain tropical characteristics, thus gaining a storm status again (it will receive the name it originally had). A notable example of this is Hurricane Ivan – Ivan made landfall near Gulf Shores, AL; then moved northeast across the U.S. to re-emerge in the Atlantic, and perform a loop back down the coast, regaining tropical status, entering the Gulf of Mexico once more, and making landfall somewhere near Texas/LA as a weak tropical storm.
