Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Loxley, AL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Robertsdale, AL, 6 miles southeast of Loxley at 161 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 90°F and low of 72°F; January is the coolest, at 61°F and 39°F. July is the wettest at 9.1 inches of precipitation on average and October the driest at 4.2 inches; the year adds up to 69.0 inches over 77 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 56% of the year's precipitation (38.5 of 69.0 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 76 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (29); a normal September there has highs of 87°F and 6.4 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 69 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 28 nights a year. That 69.0 inches is more than at 103 of the 107 Alabama stations used on this site (96%). Daphne, 8 miles west, has its own station (Fairhope 2 NE, AL): 69.5 inches a year, 0.5 more than here, and a July average high of 91°F against 90°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Mobile State Docks, AL, 18 miles west, 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, 18 miles from Loxley, 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 95 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Loxley: 67 thunderstorm wind reports, 20 flash floods, 4 heavy rain events, 2 floods and 2 lightning strikes. They killed 0 people and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $1.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 120 mph, on March 27, 2009. April has had the most flash floods, 5 of 20. Of the 321 Alabama cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 212 have had fewer than Loxley.

Flood insurance policyholders in Loxley's ZIP code 36551 have filed 27 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1981, and were paid $360,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 56% 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, 41 have fewer than Loxley.