The two scientists compared Isabel with a 1933 hurricane known as the "Storm King," which also swept into the region just west of the Chesapeake Bay and caused similar damage.

It was mid-September. As Hurricane Isabel bore down on and then pummeled the Washington area, a spasm of violence extraordinary for Montgomery raged in the wind and rain, taxing a police force ...

Hurricane Isabel, now 800 miles from the coast of North Carolina, could hit the U.S. coast between North Carolina and New Jersey on Thursday. The storm is weakening slightly but remains a powerful ...

Hurricane Isabel was a watershed for Richmond-based Dominion Virginia Power and state emergency managers. “It was transformational in every way for all of us,” said Rodney Blevins, Dominion ...

Storms like Hurricane Isabel can produce dangerous storm surges and inland flooding. Susan Moser of the National Center for Atmospheric Research joins host Neal Conan to discuss the after-effects ...

Richmond was engulfed in a water crisis this week that provoked an eerie reminder of lessons learned — or not — from when Hurricane Isabel swept into Virginia in 2003.

Watch related coverage: Hurricane Isabel: Looking back 20 years later “It kind of reminds me that Isabel was sort of a defining moment in Edenton’s long, storied history,” Newman said.

Hurricane Isabel, which had reached wind speeds high enough to make it a category 5 hurricane, could hit the northern Virginia or aryland coast this Thursday or Friday as a category 3 hurricane, ...

The 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac Hurricane (six 1933 on the U.S. landfall map) is very similar to Hurricane Isabel in 2003, making landfall on the Outer Banks in North Carolina first before racing ...

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Major insurers dodged a bullet with Hurricane Isabel as the weakened storm likely caused insured losses of about $500 million, which was on the low end of estimates, analysts ...

If Hurricane Isabel strikes, Tech Data will be ready. That's the message the Clearwater, Fla., distributor sent to solution provider via e-mail Wednesday.

A map of the wind field at the heart of Hurricane Isabel, using data acquired at 15.23 UTC on 17 September 2003 by the C-band scatterometer on board ESA’s ERS-2 spacecraft.