Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The hurricane produced heavy rainfall in the Hampton Roads area, reaching 10.6 inches (270 mm) at James City. [16] The outer rainbands of Isabel spawned a 150-foot (46 m) wide F0 tornado in Nottoway County near Crewe , the only confirmed tornado during the passage of the hurricane.
0–9. Great Chesapeake Bay Hurricane of 1769; 1804 New England hurricane; 1806 Great Coastal hurricane; 1815 North Carolina hurricane; 1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane
This story is part of a weather partnership with WTKR News 3. Two decades ago, a veil of uneasiness hung over Hampton Roads and the Outer Banks as Hurricane Isabel made her way to landfall. The ...
Hurricane Isabel was the strongest Atlantic hurricane since Mitch, and the deadliest, costliest, and most intense tropical cyclone in the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane Isabel was also the strongest hurricane in the open waters of the Atlantic, both by wind speed and central pressure, before being surpassed by hurricanes Irma and ...
The hurricane damaged 2,132 buildings and destroyed another 31 according to the Weather Bureau. [2]: 189 The Richmond Times-Dispatch described the storm as one of "unusual violence". Wind gusts in the Hampton Roads area exceeded 80 mph (130 km/h). The Norfolk and Virginia Beach areas were the hardest-hit locales in Virginia. Homes were damaged ...
The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1 and runs through Nov. 30 and on average, the Atlantic basin sees about seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes a year.
The 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane [1] was among the most damaging hurricanes in the Mid-Atlantic states in the eastern United States. The sixth storm and third hurricane of the very active 1933 Atlantic hurricane season, it formed in the eastern Atlantic, where it moved west-northwestward and eventually became a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale.
On average, the services have predicted 23 named storms, 11 hurricanes and five major hurricanes (the designation given to storms that reach Category 3 or higher, based on their wind speeds).