Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 331
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 1999, 2:15 AM CDT for 41 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1999, 2:15 AM CDT (07:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1999, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hood County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 66 min |
| May 26, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 44 min |
| May 26, 2:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 77 min |
| May 26, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones, Shackelford | 61 min |
| May 26, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 38 min |
| May 26, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent | 32 min |
| May 26, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 40 min |
| May 26, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 66 min |
| May 26, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King, Stonewall | 51 min |
| May 26, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 67 min |
| May 26, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 65 min |
| May 26, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 63 min |
| May 26, 4:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Knox | 3 hr |
| May 26, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Wise | 43 min |
| May 26, 4:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 50 min |
| May 26, 4:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Archer | 3 hr |
| May 26, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 30 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 1344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1377 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Archer, Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Childress and 47 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Archer, Bosque, Brown, Camp, Cherokee and 39 more | 4 hr |
| May 26, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson and 25 more | 5 hr |
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.