Hurricane Isabel

These images, acquired by the Landsat 5 satellite, show dramatic changes Hurricane Isabel wrought on the North Carolina shoreline.

The outer bands of Hurricane Isabel sweep over Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, in this true-color <Ahref="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink"> Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image taken by NASA’s Aqua satellite on September 17, 2003 at 2:24 pm, US Eastern time. At this time, the eye of the hurricane was still about 350 miles from the US shoreline, but moving north-northwest at 11 miles per hour. Isabel is a Category 2 hurricane, with sustained winds of 105 miles per hour.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Start Date

    2003-09-17

  • Event Start Date

    2003-09-08

  • NH Image ID

    11721

  • NH Event ID

    10151

  • NH Posting Date

    2003-09-17