Upper Mobile storm history

A three year old boy in Mobile was left inside a van at a day care center all day. He was not discovered until the late afternoon and had been dead for a few hours. He died of heat stroke. The outside temperatures in the Mobile area were in the low to middle 90s during the day wi…

Weatherflow station at Buccaneer Yacht Club measured 51 mph. Large tree limbs were knocked down causing scattered power outages.

A prolonged period of dry weather continued through much of December resulting in continued drought conditions across southwest and south central Alabama. Severe (D2) and Extreme (D3) drought conditions were found across much of the region. A couple of rain events late in the mon…

A prolonged period of dry weather resulted in worsening drought conditions across southwest and south central Alabama. By the end of November, the entire region was under Extreme (D3) Drought. The entire area saw rain totals less than 50% of normal for the month, with many areas …

EMA reports 1 inch of sleet in Saraland.

A public report of 3.5 inches of snow in Citronelle.

Hurricane Gustav moved south and west of southwest Alabama. Gustav brought tropical storm force winds to the area that began the end of August and continued into September 1. The highest winds were observed during the morning of September 1. The buoy at Dauphin Island had a susta…

Gustav moved south and west of the Alabama Coastal waters and brought high tide levels to the area. Due to high tides and heavy rainfall, Bayou Sara in Saraland rose to 9.3 feet, which is its 2ec highest height ever. Fifty three residents had to be evacuated due to the high water…

Hurricane Gustav moved south and west of coastal Alabama the end of August and the first of September. Only Tropical Storm conditions were felt in coastal Alabama. The storm started impacting coastal Alabama during the evening of August 31. However, the greatest impacts were not …

Fay weakened to a depression as it moved into Baldwin county during the evening of August 23. The center of Fay moved into southeast Mississippi during the early morning of August 24. Coastal Alabama was put under a Tropical Storm watch at 900 AM CST on August 22. The watch was u…

The average temperature for the month of January in Mobile was 46.2 degrees. This makes January 2003 the sixteenth coldest January on record. The coldest was 39.6 degrees in 1940. January of 2003 was the second driest January on record in the Mobile area. In January of 2003 we re…

Patchy, but locally dense, fog formed over Mobile Bay during the early morning hours. The fog sharply reduced visibilities along sections of the Interstate 10 Bayway, just east of the George Wallace Tunnel. Between 800 am and 815 am, a couple of multi-car pileups occurred in the …

A wind gust of 63 mph was recorded by the meteorology department at the University of South Alabama. The wind gust occurred after thunderstorms had moved well east of the area. No damage was reported.