Debris Flow in Lower Baldwin, Alabama

Debris Flow January 20, 2010 · Lower Baldwin, Alabama

What the National Weather Service wrote

Daphne Police report a mudslide on the by-pass in Spanish Fort. The west bound lanes were blocked. The mudslide was caused by excessive heavy rainfall.

The wider storm

On the evening of January 20th, a warm front was moving slowly northeast off the Gulf of Mexico with a moist unstable air-mass moving slowly inland across the central Gulf Coast region. A series of slow moving thunderstorms repeatedly moved across the deeply saturated grounds of southwest Alabama, producing numerous reports of flooding and flash flooding across the region. Prior to this event, southwest Alabama was experiencing it's wettest winter season on record.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 213791. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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