Thunderstorm Wind, Red River
- When
- June 14, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Red River County, Coushatta
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 32.017, -93.350
Numerous trees down.
Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 14, 2003
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 14, 2:25 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:25 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 325 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2003 MOST CONVECTION TODAY FIRING ALONG WEAK SURFACE FRONT FROM NORTHERN ARKANSAS INTO CENTRAL AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA. MESOETA SEEMS TO HAVE BEST DEPICTION OF THIS...SO WILL GO WITH IN SHORT RUN AND BLEND WITH GFS LATER IN FORECAST. OVERALL...AIRMASS OVER CWA WILL REMAIN MOIST AND UNSTABLE OVER NEXT SEVERAL DAYS WITH PRECIP WATER BETWEEN 1.5 AND 2 INCHES. WEAK SHORT WAVES WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE TRIGGER FOR ANY SCATTERED TSTM DEVELOPMENT. UPPER TROF WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY FROM EAST TEXAS TO THE CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI VALLEY OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. NORTHERN PORTION OF TROF KICKS OUT TOWARD END OF WEEK...FINALLY BRINGING SOME DRIER AIR TO MOST AREAS. WILL DROP MENTION OF PRECIP BY SATURDAY TO ISOLATED. SHV 069/086 068/086 069 4544 MLU 070/086 068/084 071 4544 TXK 068/086 068/085 068 4444 TYR 069/084 068/085 069 4544 LFK 070/086 069/087 070 4544 .SHV...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 11:00 AM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-151100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER CENTRAL TEXAS WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM ACROSS THE ENTIRE FOUR STATE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT.
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:44 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, June 14, 2003
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, June 14, 2003
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, June 14, 2003
- High Surf in Oregon, June 14, 2003
- Flash Flooding in Ohio, June 14, 2003
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 14, 2003
- Tornadoes in Illinois, June 14, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 14, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 14 to 15, 2003
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, June 14, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 14, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 14, 2003
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5364942.