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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Mobile, AL

May 8, 2026Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2026, 1:32 PM CDT for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 2026, 1:32 PM CDT (18:32 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2026, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 246 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -432 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 8, 1:04 PM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 1:04 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 8, 12:42 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 1:11 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 12:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	38 min
May 8, 12:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	48 min
May 8, 1:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	49 min
May 8, 2:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	51 min
May 8, 9:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	George, Greene, Perry	6 days
May 8, 10:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry, Stone	49 min
May 8, 11:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry, Stone	49 min
May 8, 11:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Stone	39 min

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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.