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Tornado Warning 23, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 26, 2000Haskell County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 5:55 PM CDT for Haskell County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2000, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 7:00 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, 5:58 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, 10.9 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: 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

570 
WFUS54 KSJT 262257
TORSJT
TXC207-270000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
555 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HASKELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 554 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 1 MILE WEST OF HASKELL...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HASKELL AT 6 PM CDT 
  WEINERT AT 625 PM CDT
  IRBY AT 635 PM CDT

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES...AND GO TO A NEARBY STURDY
BUILDING. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH
AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

LAT...LON 3322 9985 3307 9973 3318 9947 3348 9948

TEW

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, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm 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.