On its approach to land - and even more so after it made landfall - the thunderstorm activity became increasingly disorganized and it lost its well-defined center at the surface, and those are two necessary criteria for something to be considered a tropical cyclone,
Post-storm analyses often reveal new information, and it is not uncommon for initial reports to change when systems are later examined with all available data and without operational time constraints.
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