Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed across portions of southwest Arkansas during the late afternoon and evening hours of July 22nd. These storms developed along a residual outflow boundary left over from convection that occurred previously across central Arkansas.
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The episode as NWS SHV wrote it up.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed across portions of southwest Arkansas during the late afternoon and evening hours of July 22nd. These storms developed along a residual outflow boundary left over from convection that occurred previously across central Arkansas. Storms developed across southern Nevada County during the late evening. These storms, once they collapsed, produced wind gusts that damaged chicken houses and killed a few chickens.
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 Jul 22, 5:42 PM CST, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 642 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 2008 .DISCUSSION... SENDING UPDATE EARLY TO ACCOUNT FOR VERY ISOLATED COVERAGE OVER SE OK AND SW AR...PRACTICALLY NO OTHER CONVECTION IN CWA. THUS...CHANGED BOTH AREAS OF SCT POPS...EXTREME NORTH AND EXTREME SOUTH CWA...BACK TO ISOLATED OVERNIGHT. NO OTHER CHANGES NEEDED./VII/ && VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGHOUT THE 24 HR TAF PD. A FEW TSRA/SHRA WILL LINGER THROUGH SUNSET...BUT WILL NOT LIKELY AFFECT ANY TERMINALS. BR MAY AFFECT OPERATIONS AT ELD BY 05Z AND LFK BY 10Z...BUT WILL RETURN TO VFR BY 14Z. SCT CU WILL DEVELOP BY AROUND 16-17Z...AND A FEW SHRA/TSRA CAN/T BE RULED OUT DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. SCT TO BKN CIRRUS FROM TC DOLLY WILL HANG OVER THE AREA FOR MOST OF THE PD. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT AND SELY/ESELY THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...PICKING UP JUST A BIT TO 7-12 KT DURING THE DAY TOMORROW. /12/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 75 96 75 96 74 / 10 30 20 30 20 MLU 75 95 74 96 72 / 20 30 30 30 20 DEQ 71 98 73 98 68 / 20 20 10 20 20 TXK 77 98 76 96 74 / 20 20 20 20 20 ELD 72 96 73 97 73 / 20 30 20 30 20 TYR 75 96 75 93 74 / 0 20 10 30 20 GGG 74 96 74 94 73 / 10 30 20 30 20 LFK 74 93 73 92 73 / 20 50 30 40 20 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 2008 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-231100- 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 TUE JUL 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...EAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AS MOISTURE MOVES INLAND FROM THE GULF AROUND THE NORTHERN SIDE OF TROPICAL STORM DOLLY...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. DEEP EAST TEXAS AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA HAVE THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR STORMS. MOVEMENT SHOULD BE SLOWLY TO THE NORTH WITH ISOLATED CONVECTION CONTINUING INTO THE EVENING. SOME OF THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF BUT HEAVY RAINFALL... FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND ISOLATED WIND GUSTS TO 30 TO 35 MPH. NO ORGANIZED HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY TYPICAL SUMMERTIME ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR EACH DAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The roof was blown off of four chicken houses near the Sutton, Arkansas community. A few trees were also downed in the area.
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