Aired on WBRE-TV, (Wilkes-Barrie/Scranton) channel 28 in June of 1992. Even so, the massive tropical storm flooded millions of acres, carried away cars, destroyed homes, took lives—and forever changed North America’s greatest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay. Agnes remembered, 40 years ago at the Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center. WASHINGTON — Forty-five years ago on June 19, 1972, Hurricane Agnes made landfall in Florida.

Hurricane Agnes 40th Anniversary - 2012 fact sheet from National Weather Service Office in Sterling, Va. The storm caused some of the worst flooding ever in the mid-Atlantic and is responsible for 122 deaths. Forty-six years ago, and just three years after remnants of Hurricane Camille devastated Central Virginia, Hurricane Agnes swept through and brought more flood damage to … Retrospective: The Damage Caused by Hurricane Agnes People still talk about Hurricane Agnes, though it was no longer a hurricane by the time it devastated the region 40 years ago this month. Tropical storm Agnes approached hurricane intensity after moving off the Virginia coast into the Atlantic Ocean, however it did not reach hurricane status as it had been so severely weakened previously. On 22 June, the storm made its final landfall near New York City, NY. Banded convection was first noted in the Banded convection was first noted in the northwest Caribbean Sea on June 11. The storm weakened to tropical depression status over the Carolinas, only to re-intensify to tropical storm strength as it reached the Virginia coast on the 21st. Agnes was one of the largest June hurricanes on record. Hurricane Agnes came onshore over the Florida Panhandle during the afternoon of June 19th. Includes commercials Sorry for the quality, this was taken from an old VHS tape.