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Tornado Warning 24, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 7:22 PM CDT for Throckmorton County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. 3 reports 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, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Throckmorton County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:25 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Throckmorton, TX | Baseball size hail was reported in northern Throckmorton County. |
| May 26, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Throckmorton, TX | A tornado was reported in eastern Throckmorton County. The tornado was on the ground for 90 seconds, but no significant damage was reported. |
| May 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Elbert, TX |
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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 3095 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1301 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 11.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
663 WFUS54 KSJT 270022 TORSJT TXC447-270115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 722 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... THROCKMORTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 721 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF ELBERT...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF THROCKMORTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ELBERT AT 755 PM CDT IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3338 9930 3320 9933 3316 9898 3337 9898
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 95 min |
| May 27, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 46 min |
| May 27, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 88 min |
| May 27, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 89 min |
| May 27, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 89 min |
| May 27, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 64 min |
| May 27, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 51 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.