Alabama, 2025

Flash 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.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The toll

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS MOB wrote it up.

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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The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:00 UTC.

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Event by event

2 heavy rain, 2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

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.

What these are

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.

The same day elsewhere

More

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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1296046, 1296047, 1296039, 1296041.