Confirmed Tornado Tracks Toward Bay Minette as Baldwin County Hit by Wave of Severe Storms

A tornado warning triggered for Baldwin, Alabama, lines up with a confirmed tornado reported by the National Weather Service in Mobile, according to [2]. At 3:59pm CDT, the service placed the tornado 8 miles southeast of Creola, moving northeast at 15 mph, and warned it would track near Bay Minette by roughly 4:15pm CDT, according to [2]. The source describes the detection method as "radar confirmed tornado," and cautions of a "damaging tornado" capable of producing flying debris dangerous to anyone caught without shelter, destroying or damaging mobile homes, and causing damage to roofs, windows and vehicles, with tree damage likely, according to [2]. That tornado arrived amid a broader outbreak of severe thunderstorm activity across Mobile and Baldwin counties on the same day. The National Weather Service in Mobile issued a string of separate severe thunderstorm warnings, according to [2]: one for east central Mobile County and west central Baldwin County until 4:30pm CDT, tied to a storm 5 miles east of Chickasaw moving east at 15 mph; one for east central Baldwin County until 4:15pm CDT, tied to a storm 11 miles southwest of Molino moving west at 5 mph; and one for west central Mobile County until 4:45pm CDT, tied to a storm over Mobile Regional Airport that was nearly stationary. Each of these thunderstorm warnings carried the same headline hazard — 60 mph wind gusts, with penny-size hail also flagged for the Mobile Regional Airport cell — and each was radar indicated rather than confirmed by a spotter, according to [2]. The Mobile Regional Airport warning specifically named Semmes and Tanner Williams as affected locations, according to [2]. Separately, a Severe Thunderstorm Warning covering Elberta, Perdido Beach and Lillian in southeastern Baldwin County, near the Alabama-Florida line, was in effect until 5:15pm CDT Sunday, according to [1]. That warning cited possible wind gusts up to 60 mph — enough to damage trees, power lines and unsecured outdoor objects — along with penny-sized hail, according to [1]. The source urged residents in the warned area to move indoors, stay away from windows, and for drivers to prepare for heavy rain, strong gusts and reduced visibility, according to [1]. It's not established from the material whether this Elberta-area warning is connected to the same storm complex that produced the confirmed tornado near Creola and Bay Minette, or a separate, later-developing cell; the two sources describe different warning windows and don't cross-reference one another. Also embedded in the Mobile alerts feed, unrelated to the tornado threat, was a Heat Advisory and Extreme Heat Warning for southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi, with heat index values up to 110 and 113 respectively, running from Friday into evening hours, according to [2]. That heat alert does not apply to Baldwin County and appears to be a separate bulletin bundled into the same alerts page. The material establishes a confirmed tornado near Creola tracking toward Bay Minette, plus multiple concurrent severe thunderstorm warnings across Mobile and Baldwin counties, but does not give a current, consolidated status for Baldwin County as a whole, nor confirm whether the tornado warning has since been extended, downgraded or cancelled. What to watch next: updated National Weather Service bulletins on the status of the Bay Minette tornado track and whether the warning area has expanded or lifted.