Isabel became a hurricane on September 7th and rapidly intensified to Category 4 hurricane strength on the evening of the 8th while the eye was located more than 1100 miles to the east of the Leeward Islands. AT 8 AM EDT...1200Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE ISABEL WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 33.7 NORTH...LONGITUDE 75.2 WEST OR ABOUT 110 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF CAPE HATTERAS NORTH CAROLINA. Forecast Advisories Public Advisories Discussions Strike ... NOAA Hurricane Research Division Joint Hurricane Testbed Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program ... Central Pacific Hurricane Center 2525 Correa Rd Suite 250 Honolulu, HI 96822 W-HFO.webmaster@noaa.gov. AT 1 PM EDT...1700Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE ISABEL WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 34.9 NORTH... LONGITUDE 76.1 WEST OR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAPE HATTERAS NORTH CAROLINA. Hurricane Isabel 2003 A well-organized but slow moving tropical wave that exited the African coastline on September 1st developed into Tropical Storm Isabel on the morning of September 6th. ... NOAA: Hurricane FAQs National Hurricane Operations Plan … Hurricane ISABEL Advisory Archive. Hurricane Isabel was a long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that reached Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. Hurricane Isabel, September 18, 2003 This image from September 18, 2003 at 2115Z shows Hurricane Isabel just after it made landfall near Drum Inlet, North Carolina as a Category 2 hurricane. Moving west-northwest, Isabel developed into a Category 1 Hurricane on Sunday, and strengthened to rare Category 5 Hurricane status (sustained 1-minute wind greater than 155 mph) on Thursday, September 11, 2003. Isabel, which was once a powerful Category 5 hurricane in the central Atlantic with winds estimated at 160 mph, finally came ashore on September 18, 2003, as a much weaker Category 2 storm. Disclaimer When it made landfall just south of Cape Hatteras along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Isabel’s winds neared 100 miles per hour. Isabel weakened steadily as it moved across eastern North Carolina and lost tropical characteristics the next day over western Pennsylvania.
It made landfall near Drum Inlet on the Outer Banks of North Carolina as a Category 2 hurricane.
Isabel was identified as a Tropical Storm on Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 9 PM/1300 UTC at 14N 34W, west of the Cape Verde Islands. THIS IS ALSO ABOUT 95 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAPE LOOKOUT NORTH CAROLINA. ISABEL IS THE FIRST CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE IN THE ATLANTIC BASIN SINCE MITCH OF 1998. THIS POSITION IS ALSO ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF CAPE LOOKOUT NORTH CAROLINA...AND VERY NEAR OCRACOKE ISLAND ON THE NORTH CAROLINA OUTER BANKS. Graphics Archive. SATELLITE IMAGES INDICATE THAT HURRICANE ISABEL HAS CONTINUED TO STRENGTHEN...AND HAS REACHED CATEGORY FIVE INTENSITY ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE.