Flash Flood Warning for Southeastern Baldwin County Until 4:15 p.m. CDT

Heavy rain is causing flash flooding in southeastern Baldwin County, Alabama. The National Weather Service in Mobile issued an Immediate Flash Flood Warning at 1:10 p.m. CDT on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026. It lasts until 4:15 p.m. CDT, which is 2:15 p.m. Pacific. Foley, Elberta, Summerdale, Magnolia Springs, Miflin, Marlow, River Park, and Clay City are named. Radar showed thunderstorms with 2 to 3 inches already fallen and 1 to 2 inches more possible. Creeks, city streets, highways, underpasses, and low spots can flood. The warning covers southeastern Baldwin County, not every acre of the county.

What to do: do not drive through water on the road. Turn around, don’t drown. Most flood deaths happen in vehicles. Six inches of moving water can knock a person down. A foot or two of moving water can float a car. You cannot tell the depth from the driver’s seat. Stay off flooded underpasses and low spots until the warning ends. If you are in a low spot, move to higher ground. If you are trapped, call 911. If you can report flooding safely, tell local emergency services and ask them to pass the report to the National Weather Service. Do not treat 4:15 p.m. CDT as an all-clear until weather.gov says the warning is over.

Source: National Weather Service Mobile, Flash Flood Warning FFWMOB, issued 1:10 p.m. CDT Oct. 4, 2026, until 4:15 p.m. CDT Oct. 4, 2026. Live alert: https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.05726ea3fff9f329176acb371c439b13c3ee8a01.001.1. Flood safety: https://www.weather.gov/safety/flood. Office post: https://x.com/NWSMobile/status/2106809449956483528. County hub: https://noticenearby.com/al/baldwin. If this page and weather.gov disagree, weather.gov wins. Notice Nearby is not the National Weather Service, the sheriff, or the fire department.

Update, Oct. 4, 2026: new Flash Flood Warning for southwestern Baldwin County until 7:45 p.m. CDT. The Flash Flood Warning for southeastern Baldwin County on this page ended at 4:15 p.m. CDT. At 4:39 p.m. CDT, NWS Mobile issued a new Flash Flood Warning for southwestern Baldwin County, including Fort Morgan, Gulf Highlands, and Gasque, until 7:45 p.m. CDT (5:45 p.m. Pacific). Between 2 and 4 inches of rain have fallen, with 2 to 3 more possible. Full paper: https://noticenearby.com/papers/flash-flood-warnings-baldwin-al-lauderdale-ms-oct-4-2026. Source: https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.258bd68c06f3e5f73874cfa5b0da3134094832ee.001.1

Update, Oct. 4, 2026: Tornado Warning for south central Baldwin County (4:02 to 4:30 p.m. CDT). At 4:02 p.m. CDT (2:02 p.m. Pacific) on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026, the National Weather Service in Mobile issued a Tornado Warning for south central Baldwin County until 4:30 p.m. CDT (2:30 p.m. Pacific). Radar showed rotation in a severe thunderstorm about 4 miles east of Fort Morgan, or 10 miles east of Dauphin Island, moving northeast at 5 mph. At 4:20 p.m. CDT the Weather Service continued the warning. The storm was then about 5 miles east of Fort Morgan, still moving northeast at 5 mph, and staying over mainly rural areas of south central Baldwin County. The Weather Service said: take cover now. Go to a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. Stay away from windows. If you are outside, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest sturdy shelter. Torrential rain with this storm can also cause flash flooding, so do not drive through flooded roads.

The full plain-language brief, with the official clocks and the source links, is the Notice Nearby public paper: https://noticenearby.com/papers/flash-flood-warning-baldwin-county-al-oct-4-2026.

Official source: National Weather Service Mobile flash flood warning FFWMOB. https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.05726ea3fff9f329176acb371c439b13c3ee8a01.001.1

County hub: https://noticenearby.com/al/baldwin. This is not the fire department, the sheriff, or the National Weather Service. If an official page and this note disagree, the official page wins.