Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of severe weather from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
CLARKE COUNTY, Ala. — Emergency managers in Clarke and Washington counties kept a close watch on a potential severe weather event approaching the area Saturday. Forecasters had signaled the possibility…
MOBILE, Ala. — With severe weather approaching the Gulf Coast, a string of closings and cancellations went into effect Friday night and Saturday, touching government offices, schools, colleges and attractions…
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…
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…
Tropical Storm Warning Covers the Gulf Coast MOBILE, Ala. — A tropical storm warning has been issued for the Gulf Coast as Potential Tropical Cyclone 16 approaches the area. The…
A waterspout was spotted spinning over Mobile Bay on Monday morning. Viewer Carlos Amaya shared images of the weather phenomenon with the newsroom. Waterspouts are rotating columns of air that…
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…
Dauphin Island officials shut down the west end of the barrier island Friday as water pushed ahead of Tropical Storm Barry began spilling onto the roadway. The closure came as…
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…
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…