The nonexponential relaxation in supercooled salol near the calorimetric glass transition temperature is analyzed in terms of a free-energy model for the primary relaxation in glass-forming liquids. In comparing the results from impulsive stimulated thermal scattering and dielectric data, we estimate the mean angle of reorientational fluctuations in the supercooled liquid for a temperature range located between the glass transition temperature and the critical temperature of mode coupling analyses on salol. The mean reorientational jump angle is estimated to increase smoothly from about 20 degrees to 50 degrees with increasing temperature in the considered range. These values are in qualitative accord to what was found in other supercooled liquids in a similar range before.