2003 Atlantic hurricane season
The strongest hurricane of the season was Hurricane Isabel , which reached Category 5 status on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale northeast of the Lesser Antilles; Isabel later struck North Carolina as a Category 2 hurricane , causing $3 . 6 billion in damage ( 2003 USD ) and a total of 51 deaths across the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States . 
<triplet> United States <subj> North Carolina <obj> contains administrative territorial entity