Transcription of Hurricane Isabel National Hurricane Center
{{id}} {{{paragraph}}}
-1-Tropical Cyclone ReportHurricane Isabel6-19 September 2003 Jack Beven and Hugh CobbNational Hurricane Centerrevised 1 July 2004 Updated 9 September 2014 for damageHurricane Isabel was a long-lived Cape Verde Hurricane that reached Category 5 status onthe Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. It made landfall near Drum Inlet on the Outer Banks of NorthCarolina as a Category 2 Hurricane . Isabel is considered to be one of the most significant tropicalcyclones to affect portions of northeastern North Carolina and east-central Virginia since HurricaneHazel in 1954 and the Chesapeake-Potomac Hurricane of 1933.
Atlantic Beach, North Carolina at 1645 UTC 18 September, and 963.5 mb at Washington, North Carolina at 1944 UTC that day. Isabel produced storm surges of 6-8 ft above normal tide levels near the point of landfall along the Atlantic coast of North Carolina. Farther north, storm surge values ranged from 4-6 ft
Domain:
Source:
Link to this page:
Please notify us if you found a problem with this document:
{{id}} {{{paragraph}}}