An isolated severe thunderstorm developed across Wood County in northeast Texas during the afternoon of June 20th. This storm was an air mass thunderstorm that developed from the heating of the day in a moist and unstable air mass.
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The episode as NWS SHV wrote it up.
An isolated severe thunderstorm developed across Wood County in northeast Texas during the afternoon of June 20th. This storm was an air mass thunderstorm that developed from the heating of the day in a moist and unstable air mass.
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 20, 3:44 PM CST, 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 444 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 2008 .DISCUSSION... QUICK ZONE UPDATE JUST SENT TO ADD SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ACROSS E TX/SCNTRL AR/NW LA THIS EVENING. 21Z LAPS ANALYSIS IS FAIRLY SIMILAR TO WHAT WAS OBSERVED WEDNESDAY...AS OUTFLOW BOUNDARY NOTED ON VISIBLE SATELLITE LOOPS EXTENDING FROM NEAR GEL...TO JUST N OF GVT...TO OSA...EWD TO JUST S OF TXK...TO CDH...HAS ENCOUNTERED GOOD SFC BASED INSTABILITY ACROSS E TX...AS CAPES HAVE INCREASED TO 300O-3500 J/KG. SATELLITE LOOPS ALSO CONFIRMED ENHANCED CU DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE OUTFLOW BNDRY BETWEEN GGG AND PITTSBURG...WHERE 88-D HAS INDICATED INCREASING STORM DEVELOPMENT BELOW SHORTWAVE TROUGH AXIS OVERHEAD. STORMS SHOULD WEAKEN THIS EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING...AND THE DEPARTURE OF THE SHORTWAVE. THUS...ANOTHER ZONE UPDATE WILL BE ISSUED LATER THIS EVENING. UPDATE ALREADY OUT. 15 && .PREV DISCUSSION.../ISSUED AT 358 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 2008/ TWO LARGE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES CONTINUE ON A SOUTHWARD TRACK THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA...TRIGGERING SPOTTY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY PASS. ONE IS PUSHING RATHER QUICKLY ACROSS CENTRAL LOUISIANA...AND SHOULD PUSH OUTSIDE THE FORECAST REGION BY EARLY EVENING...INTERCEPTING THE SEA BREEZE BOUNDARY BEFORE IT PUSHES INTO OUR AREA. THE SECOND OUTFLOW IS PUSHING ACROSS NORTHERN LOUISIANA AND NORTHWEST TEXAS...BUT ONLY PRODUCING ISOLATED SHOWERS. WITH MUCH OF THE UPPER SUPPORT FOR CONVECTION MOVED OFF TO THE EAST...DONT THINK WELL HAVE MUCH RAINFALL AFTER SUNSET. RAINFALL THAT DOES FORM ALONG THESE BOUNDARIES SHOULD BE SHORT LIVED. WITH A WEAK FRONT PUSHING THROUGH THE REGION SATURDAY MORNING...CAN EXPECT NORTHERLY WIND FLOW WHICH WILL CUT THE AREA OFF FROM GULF MOIST THROUGH THE REST OF THE WEEKEND...WHICH WILL HELP BRING DOWN HUMIDITY. UPPER RIDGING OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES IS EXPECTED TO BREAK DOWN SOMEWHAT...ALLOWING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES TO SLIDE TO OUR WEST...REDUCING THE CHANCES FOR RAINFALL. ANY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO FORM WILL BE ISOLATED AND WEAK. && .AVIATION... VFR FOR THE AREA...BUT STILL A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN NE TX ALONG A SOUTHWARD MOVING OUTFLOW BOUNDARY NOW BETWEEN I-30 AND I-20...MAY AFFECT KTYR/KGGG BEFORE SUNSET. ALSO...STILL A GOOD BIT OF CONVECTION OVER CENTRAL LA MOVING SE. SFC WINDS HAVE BEEN TRENDING TO WEST AND NW AROUND 5 TO 10 KTS AND WILL SLACK OVERNIGHT...BUT RESUME TOMORROW WITH PROFILERS SHOWING WESTERLY AT ALL LEVELS. AREAS THAT SAW RAINFALL MAY SEE BRIEF 3 OR 4SM VSBY ISSUES 10-14Z. /24/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 71 89 67 92 / 20 10 0 0 MLU 69 88 66 93 / 10 10 0 0 DEQ 64 88 62 93 / 10 10 0 0 TXK 67 88 64 93 / 10 10 0 0 ELD 67 88 63 93 / 20 10 0 0 TYR 70 87 66 93 / 20 10 0 0 GGG 70 88 65 92 / 20 10 0 0 LFK 72 91 66 92 / 20 20 0 0 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 15
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1159 AM CDT FRI JUN 20 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>167-211700- SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE- COLUMBIA-UNION AR-CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN- UNION LA-DE SOTO-RED RIVER-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-SABINE LA- NATCHITOCHES-WINN-GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-MCCURTAIN-BOWIE- FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG- HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK-PANOLA-NACOGDOCHES-SHELBY-ANGELINA- SAN AUGUSTINE-SABINE TX- 1159 AM CDT FRI JUN 20 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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN ACROSS MUCH OF THE FORECAST REGION THROUGH THE REST OF TODAY AS A COLD FRONT TO OUR NORTH SINKS SOUTHWARD...AND SEVERAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES REMAIN ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE REGION FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TODAY MAY BECOME STRONG...WITH SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS...HOWEVER...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS IN THE FORECAST FROM NEXT TUESDAY ONWARD AS ANOTHER WEAK COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE FOUR STATE REGION. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BE STRONG...HOWEVER... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER...HAM RADIO OPERATOR...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACTIVATION...SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. 18
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was down blocking Hwy 852 in the Perryville community.
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