Hurricane Hortense was a minimal hurricane which lasted almost two weeks in latter September and early October 1984. The thirteenth tropical cyclone, eight named storm, and the second hurricane of the 1984 Atlantic hurricane season, Hortense developed from a frontal zone on September 23, and initially had subtropical characteristics. Hortense was one of seven tropical cyclones having subtropical characteristics for some of its duration during the 1984 Atlantic hurricane season. The subtropical depression gradually strengthened while acquiring tropical characteristics, intensifying into a subtropical storm later that day, and becoming a fully tropical storm about twenty-four hours later. Intensification persisted, and Hortense briefly strengthened into a hurricane on September 25, weakening