Oct 7, 2017
Hurricane Nate quickly moved north northwest out of the northwest Caribbean Sea and across the Gulf of Mexico, making landfall near Biloxi, MS just after midnight on October 8th as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum winds of 85 mph. Nate quickly weakened as it moved inland across inland southeast Mississippi and southwest Alabama and was downgraded to a tropical depression over central Alabama by 10am CDT on October 8th.||The most significant damage produced by Nate was a substantial storm surg
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 724799). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Wilcox County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.