Cristobal’s Storm Surge Floods Fowl River Marina Pier
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. — Tropical Storm Cristobal pushed water over the pier at a Fowl River marina on Sunday, June 7, 2020, as rain and storm surge from the Gulf…
Aerial Footage Shows Steele Creek Marina Underwater as Flooding Hits Satsuma and Saraland
Aerial footage captured the extent of flooding at Steele Creek Marina in Satsuma after days of heavy rain drenched north Mobile County, with video showing most of the marina property…
Gulf Coast meteorologists gather for severe weather round table
Local meteorologists from across the Gulf Coast and Southeast compared notes this week on the severe weather threat expected to hit the region this weekend, in a round-table discussion that…
Alabama Power Restores Service After Transmission Failure Blacks Out 3,000 Downtown Mobile Customers
Alabama Power crews restored electricity to roughly 3,000 customers in downtown Mobile on the afternoon of Oct. 29, 2019, about an hour after a failure in the utility’s transmission system…
Family trapped in storm shelter after Thomasville tornado; no injuries reported
CLARKE COUNTY, Ala. — A tornado moved through Clarke County on Friday, damaging several homes and trapping a family inside their storm shelter as the storm passed overhead, according to…
Theodore Firefighter’s Truck-Fire Video a Warning as Dry Conditions Persist
A video posted by the Theodore-Dawes Volunteer Fire Department offered a vivid reminder of how quickly a vehicle can become fully engulfed — and why the region’s dry stretch was…
Dauphin Island Cleanup From Tropical Storm Barry Could Stretch Into Midweek
Dauphin Island dodged the worst of Tropical Storm Barry, but visitors and residents are still navigating the aftermath — with cleanup expected to continue for another day or two. The…
Alabama Power Whittles Mobile, Bayou La Batre Outages Down to Dozens
Power has been restored to nearly all of the customers affected by Saturday’s outages in the Mobile and Bayou La Batre areas, according to Alabama Power. The utility reported that…
Severe Storms Leave 16,000 in the Dark Across Mobile and Baldwin Counties
Severe thunderstorms sweeping through the Mobile area on the evening of June 27, 2019, knocked out electricity to roughly 16,000 customers at the peak of the event, according to Alabama…
Why the Chickasaw Tornado Came With No Warning: NWS Explains
When a confirmed EF-0 tornado touched down in Chickasaw on a Friday afternoon, some residents wondered why the National Weather Service office in Mobile never issued a tornado warning for…