Hurricane Isabel

Hurricane Isabel northeast of the Lesser Antilles, above (early the morning of Sept. 12, 2003)

The MODIS instrument onboard NASA's Terra satellite captured this bird's-eye view of Hurricane Isabel at 14:15 UTC on September 11, 2003. In this image Isabel is located at 530 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands and was packing maximum sustained winds near 150 mph. This takes Isabel 5 mph short of a category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

Images courtesy: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.

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Rani D. Chohan
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Phone: 301-286-2483

September 11, 2003 view of Isabel

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