Sep 16, 1999
Hurricane Floyd made landfall just east of Cape Fear, North Carolina in the early morning hours of the 16th and moved north-northeast across extreme southeast Virginia to near Ocean City, Maryland by evening on the 16th. Rainbands on the outer edge of the hurricane began to affect Maryland east of Washington County shortly after 8:00 AM EDT on the 15th and continued to cross the area through afternoon on the 16th. The eye of Hurricane Floyd passed east of the Chesapeake Bay between 9:00 AM and
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5716814). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Southern Baltimore / Baltimore (c) County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.