High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hurricane Lisa was the 12th known tropical cyclone of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm developed from a tropical wave that entered the Atlantic Ocean on September 29 from the coast of Africa. By October 4, a low-level circulation developed, and the system was declared a tropical depression early on October 5; it was upgraded to a tropical storm that same day. Initially moving towards the northwest, Lisa turned to the northeast, and subsequently accelerated towards the north, attaining hurricane status before transitioning into an extratropical cyclone over the cold waters of the north Atlantic. As Lisa remained far from land, no damage was reported.