 The storm was described as a " freak " , forming about three months after the end of the hurricane season . The chief forecaster at Miami U.S. Weather Bureau , Grady Norton , remarked that he was unsure how the cyclone developed . It is the only tropical or subtropical storm on record during the month of February , and was the earliest tropical cyclone to strike the United States . Its structure initially was uncertain , and the storm was not included in the 1952 Atlantic hurricane season summary published by the Miami Weather Bureau office . Ultimately it was included in the tropical cyclone database . Had it been operationally treated as a tropical cyclone , it would have been named Tropical Storm Able . 
