An isolated thunderstorm developed during the early evening hours in Smith County. This thunderstorm developed in a very moist and unstable airmass and produced some wind damage in and around the town of Tyler, Texas.
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An isolated thunderstorm developed during the early evening hours in Smith County. This thunderstorm developed in a very moist and unstable airmass and produced some wind damage in and around the town of Tyler, Texas.
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 8, 2:34 PM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 334 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 2007 .DISCUSSION... FRONT CURRENTLY NEAR A HOPE...TEXARKANA...MINEOLA LINE AND IS VISIBLE ON SATELLITE PICS. MOST OF THE CURRENT CONVECTION IS AHEAD OF THE ACTUAL FRONTAL BOUNDARY...IN AN AREA OF HIGHEST INSTABILITY. CANNOT RULE ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT ALONG FRONT LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS...AS THE BOUNDARY SHIFTS SOUTHEAST...BUT AFTER MIDNIGHT THE CONVECTION SHOULD BECOME ISOLATED. SEVERE WEATHER A POSSIBILITY...BUT DO NOT THINK IT WILL BE WIDESPREAD ENOUGH TO MENTION IN ZONES. UPPER LEVEL SHEAR IS WEAK...AND ATMOSPHERE IS SOMEWHAT WARM FOR HAIL. HOWEVER DOWNBURST ARE A POSSIBILITY. FRONT EXPECTED TO STALL ACROSS THE MIDDLE OF THE CWA...AND BECOME DIFFUSE SATURDAY. NGM ACTUALLY SEEMED TO HAVE THE BEST WIND GRIDS AND FRONTAL POSITION THROUGH SATURDAY THEN USED GFS AND MODIFIED WIND SPEEDS SOME. AFTER TONIGHT...HIGH PRESSURE BEGINS TO TAKE HOLD OF THE REGION... AND CENTERS ITSELF OVER EAST TEXAS INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK... AND PERHAPS LONGER. ANY RAINFALL WILL BE SPARSE AND LIMITED TO AFTERNOON AND VERY EARLY EVENING HOURS. TEMPS WILL BE ON A SLOW CLIMB. MOS NUMBERS LOOKED TOO LOW FOR THE SYNOPTIC PATTERN... SO ADJUSTED UP FOR MOST DAYS. && .AVIATION... VFR CEILINGS OR SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE TAF SITES THROUGH 09/10Z. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTH PART OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY IN THE EVENING...AND MAY MAY AFFECT THE SHV...MLU...AND ELD TAF SITES. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL SINK SOUTH INTO THE FOUR STATE AREA TONIGHT. LOW CLOUDS MAY CAUSE MVFR CIGS AGAIN LATE TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING...MAINLY IN THE LFK TAF AREA. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 74 94 73 96 / 30 20 20 20 MLU 74 93 72 95 / 30 30 20 20 DEQ 65 90 68 92 / 20 20 20 20 TXK 71 93 71 94 / 20 20 20 20 ELD 71 92 70 94 / 30 20 20 20 TYR 71 92 72 95 / 30 20 20 20 GGG 72 93 71 95 / 30 20 20 20 LFK 73 93 73 95 / 30 20 20 20 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 14/03 ...CORRECTED TYPO IN FIRST PARAGRAPH... DAB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 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>167-091100- 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- 1200 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND POSSIBLY NORTHWEST LOUISIANA THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. WITH AFTERNOON HEATING LEADING TO INCREASED INSTABILITY...LOOK FOR A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. DAMAGING WIND IS THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER RISK...BUT SOME LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE. AREA OF CONCERN IS GENERALLY ALONG INTERSTATE 30...SOUTHWARD TO NEAR LUFKIN AND TOLEDO BEND. IN LOUISIANA...FROM TOLEDO BEND...NORTHEAST TO NEAR MONROE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACROSS THE RISK AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS.
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 137 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:03 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees and power lines were downed near the 500 block of Fannin Street. Trees were also down on Broadway Avenue.
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