Alabama, 2025Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in Alabama, October 26, 2025
October 26, 2025 · NWS MOB · 4 events in 1 county or zone
Slow moving storms caused heavy rainfall and flooding in southwest Alabama.
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- Wind
- Hail
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- Heat and drought
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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.
Slow moving storms caused heavy rainfall and flooding in southwest Alabama.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 26, 6:59 AM CST, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 6:59 AM CST, 1 minute before
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</html>Heavy Rain, Baldwin
- When
- October 26, 7:00 AM CST to 12:30 PM CST
- Where
- Baldwin County, 1.38 mi ESE of Caswell
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 30.290, -87.510
Daily rainfall amount of 6.17 inches of rain measured at the mesonet station (DW9919 Gulf Shores) on Ono Island, AL.
Heavy Rain, Baldwin
- When
- October 26, 7:00 AM CST to 12:30 PM CST
- Where
- Baldwin County, Orange Beach
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 30.280, -87.570
Daily rainfall amount of 7.8 inches of rainfall measured at the mesonet station (FW3872 Orange Beach) at City Hall in Orange Beach, AL.
Flash Flood, Baldwin
- When
- October 26, 11:26 AM CST to 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Baldwin County, 2.48 mi WSW of Lillian to 2.94 mi WSW of Lillian
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 30.390, -87.490
Heavy rain caused yard and road flooding.
Flash Flood, Baldwin
- When
- October 26, 12:20 PM CST to 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Baldwin County, 1.38 mi WSW of Orange Beach to 1.19 mi SW of Orange Beach
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 30.270, -87.590
Water over numerous roads in Orange Beach, especially near Cotton Bayou overlook and Signal 12 along Perdido Beach Blvd. Many yards are flooded. 7.8 inches of rain at the nearby City Hall.
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1296046, 1296047, 1296039, 1296041.