The Spanish Fort City Council on Monday night announced it will implement a dusk-to-dawn curfew beginning Tuesday for a portion of the city in response to Hurricane Sally.
The council granted Spanish Fort’s mayor authority to lift the curfew if it is no longer needed.
The restriction will be imposed in areas of the city along U.S. Highway 90 and 98 from the Mobile-Baldwin County line to the U.S. Highway 98 bypass.
Sally is expected to make landfall either Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning somewhere between Grand Isle, Louisiana and Navarre, Florida, according to the National Weather Service’s 10 p.m. update on the hurricane. Tornadoes are possible in coastal Alabama late Monday night through early Tuesday morning, with the threat of tornadoes increasing and slowly spreading inland during the day Tuesday.