Flash Flood in Alabama, September 28 to 29, 1998

Name: Flash Flood in Alabama, September 28 to 29, 1998
Start: 1998-09-28T11:00
End: 1998-09-29T18:00
Location: Alabama

September 28 to 29, 1998 · NWS MOB · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

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1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Mobile

When: September 28, 11:00 AM CST to September 29, 6:00 PM CST
Where: Mobile County, Countywide
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 30.685, -88.197 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Rainfall estimates from Hurricane Georges were between fifteen and twenty inches throughout the county. Many roads had to be closed for several hours because of high water. Schools were closed for three days because of damage done to secondary roads around the county. The heavy rainfall also caused many bridges around the county to be closed because of undermining by the high water. The heavy rains caused many of the rivers across the county to rise to near or above record levels. Bayou Sara reached 9.8 feet on September 28. This was above the previous unofficial record of 7.84 feet in April of 1979. The Fowl River rose to 10.27 feet and was considered to be a twenty-five year flood. This reading was well below the reading with Hurricane Danny last year.

What these are

Flash Flood: Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5671775.