Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Chickasaw, AL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Mobile Dwtn Airport, AL, 10 miles south of Chickasaw at 26 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 75°F; January is the coolest, at 62°F and 43°F. August is the wettest at 7.1 inches of precipitation on average and February and October the driest at 3.8 inches; the year adds up to 60.6 inches over 72 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 53% of the year's precipitation (31.9 of 60.6 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 70 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (28); a normal September there has highs of 89°F and 4.5 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 73 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 15 nights a year. That 60.6 inches is more than at 86 of the 107 Alabama stations used on this site (80%). Saraland, 5 miles north, has its own station (Mobile, AL): 67.3 inches a year, 6.7 more than here, and an August average high of 91°F against 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Mobile State Docks, AL, 5 miles southeast, 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, 5 miles from Chickasaw, 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 191 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Chickasaw: 118 thunderstorm wind reports, 57 flash floods, 9 lightning strikes, 5 floods and 2 heavy rain events. They killed 1 person and injured 9, and the NWS estimated $12.0 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 101 mph, on January 26, 1996. August has had the most flash floods, 10 of 57. Of the 321 Alabama cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 296 have had fewer than Chickasaw.

Flood insurance policyholders in Chickasaw's ZIP code 36611 have filed 220 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $5.6 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Katrina in 2005: 74 claims (34% of all) and $4.3 million, then Hurricane Georges in 1998 with 39 and Hurricane Frederic in 1979 with 33. 81% 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, 98 have fewer than Chickasaw.