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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 26, 2000Haskell County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 4:55 PM CDT for Haskell County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2000, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Haskell County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 5:20 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Rule, TX
May 26, 5:35 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Rochester, TX
May 26, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Haskell, TX	A brief tornado touchdown was reported just south of Haskell. No damage was reported.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 1721 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 374 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 11.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 26, 3:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 2:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	67 min
May 26, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	58 min
May 26, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones	58 min
May 26, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell	64 min
May 26, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Haskell	65 min
May 26, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.