The first storm to form in the LOCATION@1 in the NUMBER@1 LOCATION@2 hurricane season , PERSON@1 was a record breaking , long-lived and extremely powerful storm that traversed the LOCATION@2 for NUMBER@2 days , reaching the equivalent of Category NUMBER@3 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale three times .

The first storm to form in the LOCATION@1 in the NUMBER@1 LOCATION@2 hurricane season , Ioke is a long-lived and extremely powerful storm that traversed the LOCATION@2 , reaching Category NUMBER@3 status twice as a hurricane .
