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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 326

May 24, 200221 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT for 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 21 counties

Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Young County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Stonewall	43 min
May 24, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell	72 min
May 24, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	62 min
May 24, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	60 min
May 24, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	82 min
May 24, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell	63 min
May 24, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	77 min
May 24, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Taylor	60 min
May 24, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	66 min
May 24, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Haskell	65 min
May 24, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	55 min
May 24, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	78 min
May 24, 7:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Nolan, Taylor	2 hr
May 24, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Runnels, Taylor	63 min
May 24, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	81 min
May 24, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan	62 min
May 24, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Runnels	63 min
May 24, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	72 min
May 24, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	61 min
May 24, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	76 min
May 24, 9:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Runnels	3 hr
May 24, 10:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Runnels	75 min

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 1526 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -269 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1399 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Carson, Gray, Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb and 5 more	6 hr
May 24, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baylor, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Foard, Hall and 6 more	6 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.