Alert archive / Alabama / Heat Advisories in 2026
Heat Advisory 13, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this heat advisory at Aug 15, 2026, 11:25 AM CDT for 12 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; 5 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Aug 16, 2026, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 2026, 11:25 AM CDT (16:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 16, 2026, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2026, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 223 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Aug 15, 6:36 AM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 6:36 AM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 7:38 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 79 min | |
| Aug 15, 1:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 51 min |
| Aug 15, 1:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 2:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 48 min |
| Aug 15, 2:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler | 45 min |
| Aug 15, 3:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 45 min |
| Aug 15, 3:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 46 min |
| Aug 15, 3:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 50 min |
| Aug 15, 4:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 45 min |
| Aug 15, 4:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 7:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 49 min |
| Aug 15, 4:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 43 min |
| Aug 15, 4:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 5:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 48 min |
| Aug 15, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 41 min |
Nearby
Heat Advisories in Alabama, 2026Heat Advisories in Mississippi, 2026Heat Advisories in Florida, 2026Every heat advisory in 2026
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.