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Tropical Storm Warning 1002, NWS Mobile, AL

July 20, 2026Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tropical storm warning at Jul 20, 2026, 3:57 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 54 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 20, 2026, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2026, 10:08 PM CDT
In force: 54 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 440 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1231 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tropical storm 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 tropical storm warning went out at Jul 20, 12:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 12:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 20, 3:01 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 20, 3:34 PM CDT, 23 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
Jul 20, 9:52 AM CDT	Storm Surge Watch	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	24 hr
Jul 20, 11:09 AM CDT	High Surf Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	3 days
Jul 20, 3:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	41 min
Jul 20, 5:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Conecuh	36 min
Jul 20, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	39 min
Jul 20, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa	44 min
Jul 19, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	George	45 min

Nearby

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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.