Approximately 4,000 customers of Baldwin EMC and Alabama Power in Mobile and Baldwin counties are without power after several powerful thunderstorms producing multiple tornado warnings ripped through the coastal area Saturday.

The severe weather is expected to last overnight.

Morgan Barry, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mobile, said it’s still too early to determine the extent of the storm damage that includes reports of downed trees and power lines in the Bon Secour area in South Baldwin County.

One of the storms spawned a water spout in Mobile Bay.

“We’ve gotten numerous reports of various different storms causing damage that ranges from power lines being down to tree limbs down and I think there has been at least one report to a damage to a roof,” Barry said. “We have so many storms that I wouldn’t tell you which storm produced (the damage).”

She added, “We’ve seen some videos of tornadic circulations and funnel clouds and in a few cases, the storm that moved into the northern part of Mobile Bay earlier this evening did produce a water spout.”

Barry said that the NWS is aware of damage in a few spots, but added “we’re not at the point where we can pinpoint which of the storms produced the damage.”

She said a storm survey team will be sent out to assess the damage on Sunday.

Power outages are mostly centered in the Bon Secour area in South Baldwin County north of Gulf Shores, where Baldwin EMC estimates power outages occurring to 3,500 customers. Alabama Power is estimating around 550 customers without power in Mobile County.

The storms arrived into coastal Alabama around 4 p.m. with conditions favorable for producing tornadoes.

“We’ll have to monitor the tornadic threat the next several hours and potential of flooding as well,” Barry said.