Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Bay Minette, AL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Bay Minette, AL, 1 mile northwest of Bay Minette at 271 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 90°F and low of 74°F; January is the coolest, at 61°F and 41°F. July is the wettest at 8.2 inches of precipitation on average and October the driest at 3.9 inches; the year adds up to 71.9 inches over 85 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 54% of the year's precipitation (38.8 of 71.9 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 74 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (29); a normal September there has highs of 87°F and 7.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 61 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 20 nights a year. That 71.9 inches is more than at 106 of the 107 Alabama stations used on this site (99%). Spanish Fort, 15 miles southwest, has its own station (Fairhope 2 NE, AL): 69.5 inches a year, 2.4 less than here, and a July average high of 91°F against 90°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Mobile State Docks, AL, 20 miles southwest, averaged 88°F in August and 53°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to September. Sea level at the Mobile State Docks tide gauge, 20 miles from Bay Minette, has risen 1.82 ± 0.24 inches per decade from 1980 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 18.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 113 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 67 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Bay Minette: 53 thunderstorm wind reports, 12 flash floods, 1 heavy rain event and 1 lightning strike. They killed 1 person and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $642,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on January 7, 1998. April has had the most flash floods, 4 of 12. Of the 321 Alabama cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 144 have had fewer than Bay Minette.

Flood insurance policyholders in Bay Minette's ZIP code 36507 have filed 42 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $419,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Frederic in 1979: 11 claims (26% of all) and $195,000. 60% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 118 Alabama cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 60 have fewer than Bay Minette.