Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday morning near Gulf Shores (Baldwin County, 36542, 36547, 36561), Ala., as a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph.
According to media outlets, the storm was responsible for instances of extreme flooding (rain accumulations of 30 inches) and wind damage that impacted an area stretching from southeast Alabama into the western Florida Panhandle.
Approximate locations (according to media outlets) sustaining structural flooding/wind damage:
Alabama
- Brownsville (Clay County, 35072)
- Dauphin Island (Mobile County, 36528)
- Fairhope (Baldwin County, 36532, 36533)
- Foley (Baldwin County, 36535, 36536)
- Fort Morgan/Fort Bowyer (Baldwin County, 36542)
- Gulf Shores (Baldwin County, 36542, 36547)
- Loxley (Baldwin County, 36551)
- Mobile (Mobile County)
*Concentrated damage (wind): Midtown (36606, 36607) - Orange Beach (Baldwin County, 36561)
**Hardest hit area (home flooding)
*30 inches of rain recorded - Robertsdale (Baldwin County, 36567, 36574)
- Silverhill (Baldwin County, 36576)
- Spanish Fort (Baldwin County, 36527, 36577)
- Theodore (Mobile County, 36582, 36590)
Florida
- Cantonment (Escambia County, 32533)
- Floridatown (Santa Rosa County, 32571)
- Fort Walton Beach (Okaloosa County, 32547, 32548, 32549)
- Freeport (Walton County, 32439)
- Gulf Breeze (Santa Rosa County, 32561, 32562, 32563, 32566)
- Inlet Beach (Walton County, 32413, 32461)
- Jay (Santa Rosa County, 32565)
- Mack Bayou (Walton County, 32459)
- Miramar Beach (Walton County, 32550)
- Milton (Santa Rosa County, 32570, 32571, 32572, 32583)
- Myrtle Grove (Escambia County, 32506, 32507, 32511, 32512)
- Navarre (Santa Rosa County, 32566)
- Panama City (Bay County, 32401, 32402, 32403, 32404, 32405, 32406, 32407, 32408, 32409, 32411, 32412, 32413, 32417, 32461)
- Pensacola (Escambia County)
*Concentrated flooding: Downtown (32501, 32591, 32502, 32504, 32507)
*30 inches of rain recorded at NAS Pensacola - Pensacola Beach (Escambia County, 32561)
- Perdido Key (Escambia County, 32507)
- Warrington (Escambia County, 32507, 32508)
- West Pensacola (Escambia County, 32505, 32506, 32507, 32516)
South Carolina
- Millwood (Sumter County, 29556)
*Flood water reportedly reached home doorways (eight inches of rain recorded) - Sumter (Sumter County, 29150, 29151, 29153, 29154)
- *Flood waters reportedly reached home doorways (seven inches of rain recorded)
Media Coverage
USA Today: Live coverage of Sally: Pensacola residents pick up the pieces; 320,000 still without power
The Weather Channel:
Sally Spreading Torrential Rainfall, Flooding to Georgia, Carolinas, Virginia
Sally Floods Homes, Businesses in Alabama, Florida; Damages Chunk of Pensacola Bridge
Hurricane Sally Lashing Gulf Coast With Flooding Rain, Storm Surge and Damaging Winds After Making Landfall
Tropical Storm Sally to Intensify Into a Hurricane; Serious Threat of Storm Surge, Flooding Rain Headed For Gulf Coast
Declaration Activity
Governor
9/14/20
Alabama
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (State of Emergency: Tropical Storm Sally)
Associated County ZIP Code List (Statewide)
9/13/20
Mississippi
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves (GOVERNOR REEVES DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY IN PREPARATION FOR TROPICAL STORM SALLY)
Associated County ZIP Code List (Statewide)
9/12/20
Louisiana
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (Gov. John Bel Edwards Declares State of Emergency in Advance of Tropical Storm Sally)
Associated Parish ZIP Code List (Statewide)
FEMA
9/15/20
Florida
Florida Hurricane Sally (EM-3546)
Associated County ZIP Code List (13 Counties)
9/14/20
Alabama
Alabama Hurricane Sally (EM-3545)
Associated County ZIP Code List (Statewide)
9/14/20
Louisiana
Louisiana Hurricane Sally (EM-3543)
Associated County ZIP Code List (Statewide)
9/14/20
Mississippi
Mississippi Hurricane Sally (EM-3544)
Associated County ZIP Code List (24 Counties)