Sep 18, 2003
On September 18, 2003, Hurricane Isabel made landfall on the North Carolina Coast. Its huge wind field was already piling water up into the southern Chesapeake Bay. By the time Isabel moved into central Virginia, it had weakened and was downgraded to a tropical storm. Isabel's eye tracked well west of the bay, but the storm's 40 to 50 mph sustained winds pushed a bulge of water northward up the bay and its tributaries producing a record storm surge. The Maryland western shore counties of the Che
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5335410). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in St. Mary's County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.