The Excel plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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7.86 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1940. The next wettest, 5.50 inches, fell in 2006.
Excel’s center stands about 410 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 330 ft to 440 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Citronelle Formation (sand), from the Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 55×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.4 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Excel reaches Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Corley Creek, Big Escambia Creek, the Escambia and the Dead: about 90 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Excel; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Excel has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 39° in January. About 64 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Excel normally reaches 70° and falls to 47°. The record high is 84°, in 1985; the record low 24°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.15 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1940 at Atmore, 18 miles south-southwest, 110 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
