southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas allowed for the development of strong to severe thunderstorms during the morning and afternoon hours. A moist and unstable airmass resulted in the thunderstorms producing wind damage.
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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.
The episode as NWS SHV wrote it up.
An upper level storm system parked across northeast Texas...southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas allowed for the development of strong to severe thunderstorms during the morning and afternoon hours. A moist and unstable airmass resulted in the thunderstorms producing wind damage.
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 May 30, 1:48 PM CST, 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 248 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2007 .DISCUSSION... CONVECTION THAT IS PUSHING SOUTH INTO THE SOUTHERN ZONES THIS AFTN HAS BECOME MORE FRAGMENTED OVER THE PAST HOUR BUT PARTS OF THE LINE STILL EXHIBIT PULSE TYPE CHARACTERISTICS OF SVR. DECIDED TO ALLOW THE WATCH TO EXPIRE AS MODERATE INSTABILITY AXIS HAS SHIFTED SOUTH OF THE CWA PER MESO ANALYSIS. MOST OF THE STORM REPORTS HAVE BEEN OF WIND DAMAGE TODAY. WILL HAVE HIGHEST POPS FOR FAR SOUTHERN AND EASTERN ZONES THIS EVENING WHERE THE LINE OF CONVECTION HAS STILL TO MOVE THROUGH. THERE MAY BE SOME AREAS OF FOG TONIGHT BUT VSBYS SHOULD NOT BE LOW ENUF TO WARRANT MENTION AS DENSE FOG. CURRENT MIN TEMP FCST LOOKS GOOD FOR TONIGHT SO WILL FOLLOW CLOSELY FROM PREVIOUS ISSUANCE. THE UPPER LOW THAT WAS OVER FAR NE TX THIS MORNING WILL SLOWLY WEAKEN AND BECOME A SHEAR AXIS ALONG THE LA COAST BEFORE DISSIPATING THIS WEEKEND. MEANWHILE THE MAIN UPPER LOW OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS WILL TRANSLATE EAST TOWARD THE GTLKS REGION BY MON MORNING. ANA ATTENDANT SURFACE FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE FCST AREA SUN INTO MON MON. THE FRONT IS PROGGED TO STALL OVER THE CWA TUE BEFORE WASHING OUT ON WED. WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE REMNANTS OF THE UPR LOW IN THE SHORT TERM AND THE SURFACE FRONT IN THE EXTENDED...WILL CARRY CHC POPS MOST OF THE FCST PD WITH THE ACTIVITY BEING MORE DIURNAL IN NATURE AFTER THE SHORT TERM PD. TEMPS WILL BE MORE SEASONAL AFTER THUR FOR MAX/MIN AND WILL FOLLOW MAV TEMPS MORE CLOSELY. && .AVIATION... WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS UPPER TROUGH BEGINNING TO EXIT ENE OF THE FOUR STATE AREA...WHILE AREA RADARS SHOW BOW ECHO EXTENDING ALONG A KLFK-KELD LINE. ALL SITES BEHIND THIS BOUNDARY ARE QUICKLY IMPROVING TO VFR...W/LINGERING -SHRA. OVERNIGHT...FORECAST SOUNDINGS AND SATURATED SOILS INDICATE IFR-LIFR CONDITIONS WILL BE PREVALENT MOST SITES BY SUNRISE...BURNING OFF TO VFR-MVFR BY NOON. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 68 86 68 87 / 30 40 10 20 MLU 67 84 67 85 / 40 40 20 30 DEQ 66 84 65 85 / 30 20 10 30 TXK 66 85 68 84 / 30 20 10 20 ELD 65 84 65 85 / 30 40 10 20 TYR 68 87 69 87 / 30 20 10 20 GGG 67 87 67 86 / 30 20 10 20 LFK 69 87 67 86 / 40 30 10 20 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 02/44
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 300 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2007 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-311100- ANGELINA-BIENVILLE-BOSSIER-BOWIE-CADDO-CALDWELL-CAMP-CASS-CHEROKEE- CLAIBORNE-COLUMBIA-DE SOTO-FRANKLIN-GRANT-GREGG-HARRISON-HEMPSTEAD- HOWARD-JACKSON-LA SALLE-LAFAYETTE-LINCOLN-LITTLE RIVER-MARION- MCCURTAIN-MILLER-MORRIS-NACOGDOCHES-NATCHITOCHES-NEVADA-OUACHITA- PANOLA-RED RIVER LA-RED RIVER TX-RUSK-SABINE LA-SABINE TX- SAN AUGUSTINE-SEVIER-SHELBY-SMITH-TITUS-UNION AR-UNION LA-UPSHUR- WEBSTER-WINN-WOOD- 300 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MAINLY SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AT TIMES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER...EMERGENCY MANAGER...AND STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY TONIGHT .
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1100 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1055 AM TSTM WND DMG NEW BOSTON 33.46N 94.42W
05/30/2007 BOWIE TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
PHONE LINES DOWN AND 911 SYSTEM OUT OF SERVICE.
&&
ASTEVENSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1104 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1059 AM TSTM WND DMG WINTHROP 33.83N 94.35W
05/30/2007 LITTLE RIVER AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREE DOWN
&&
ASTEVENSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1239 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1220 PM TSTM WND DMG JEFFERSON 32.76N 94.35W
05/30/2007 MARION TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
&&
ASTEVENSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1240 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1230 PM DENSE FOG 10 N TYLER 32.47N 95.30W
05/30/2007 SMITH TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
&&
ASTEVENSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1247 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1100 AM TSTM WND DMG DE QUEEN 34.04N 94.34W
05/30/2007 SEVIER AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
ROOF AND TREE DAMAGE FOR WEST SIDE OF DEQUEEN. ALSO
VEHICLE DAMAGE. REPORT FROM SHERIFF OFFICE.
&&
CROSSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
118 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1230 PM TSTM WND DMG 10 N TYLER 32.47N 95.30W
05/30/2007 SMITH TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
&&
ASTEVENSThe Shreveport radar (KSHV), 162 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:00 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds downed a tree which fell across two Ouachita Parish Sheriff's vehicles. No one was injured.
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