Sally’s powerful winds and very slow motion allowed the hurricane to pile up a large and damaging storm surge near the Florida/Alabama border, to the right of where the eye made landfall. (Image credit: NWS) Third-highest storm surge on record in Pensacola, Florida In Mobile, Alabama (right), winds blew offshore, driving a negative storm surge of about five feet. Wind direction matters! With Pensacola’s location (left) on the right side of Sally’s eye, where onshore winds blew, water levels there hit their third-highest level on record. Major river flooding was occurring at the Styx River and Fish River in southeast Alabama. Significant flash flooding with flooded roads and homes has also occurred in numerous spots from southeast Alabama into the western Florida Panhandle. EDT, over 500,000 homes and businesses had lost power in southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, according to. Sally’s eye at NOAA buoy 42012, about 50 miles southeast of Mobile, Alabama.Īs of 10 a.m. ![]() – a sustained wind of 71 mph and a pressure of 970.9 mb inside the eastern portion of – a sustained wind of 75 mph and a gust to 93 mph at a University of Florida weather tower at Gulf Shores, Alabama and – a sustained wind of 98 mph and a gust to 116 mph at an elevated National Ocean Service CO-OP station in Fort Morgan, Alabama – a sustained wind of 61 mph and a gust to 86 mph at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida – a sustained wind of 81 mph and a gust to 99 mph at Dauphin Island, Alabama Some wind reports during Sally’s landfall included: More than 24 inches of rain had been recorded at Pensacola Naval Air Station, and radar-estimated rainfall amounts in excess of 20 inches fell along approximately a 100-mile stretch of coast along the Alabama/Florida border (Figure 1). EDT Wednesday, September 16, Sally was centered 15 miles west-northwest of Pensacola, Florida, headed north-northeast at 5 mph with top sustained winds of 80 mph and a central pressure of 975 mb. (Image credit: NWS) Rains of over two feet, storm surge over five, and hurricane-force windsĪt 11 a.m. ![]() The white areas are rainfall amounts in excess of 20 inches. Estimated three-day rainfall amounts from Sally ending at 9 a.m. NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center reported heavy damage and extreme flooding near the coast where Sally made landfall.
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