Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed with the aid of afternoon heating across portions of northeast Texas and northwest and north central Louisiana. thunderstorms produced locally heavy rainfall and damaging downburst winds across a few locations.
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The episode as NWS SHV wrote it up.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed with the aid of afternoon heating across portions of northeast Texas and northwest and north central Louisiana. The atmosphere was very unstable and as a result...thunderstorms produced locally heavy rainfall and damaging downburst winds across a few locations.
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 25, 1:47 PM CST, 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 247 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2008 .DISCUSSION... WEAK SHEAR AXIS WILL CONTINUE TO MEANDER OVER THE REGION NEXT FEW DAYS... PROVIDING THE UPPER DYNAMICS FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. IN THE LOWER LEVELS...GULF MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO ADVECT NORTH INTO THE AREA...KEEPING PRECIPITABLE WATER LEVELS HIGH. COMBINE THIS WITH AFTERNOON HEATING...AND SOME STORMS WILL PRODUCE SOME VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THE PATTERN WILL BEGIN TO CHANGE OVER THE WEEKEND...AS LOW PRESSURE ALONG THE CALIFORNIA COAST RETROGRADES...ALLOWING A LARGE RIDGE TO BUILD OVER THE WESTERN U.S. THIS PLACES THE CWA BACK INTO NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WITH A SURFACE BOUNDARY...WIND SHIFT IN THE LOWER LEVELS...CUTTING OFF THE GULF FLOW FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY. PRECIP CHANCES WILL DIMINISH SOME WITH THIS SCENARIO...BUT NOT TOTALLY ELIMINATED. SOME RELIEF IN THE HUMIDITY...WITH SLIGHTLY LOWER DEWPOINTS POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY FOR NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA. HOWEVER...HIGHS WILL REMAIN IN THE LOWER 90S FOR THE MOST PART...AND MAY APPROACH THE MID 90S BY WEDNESDAY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S THROUGHOUT THE SEVEN DAY FORECAST PERIOD. && AVIATION... SCT CONVECTION CONTINUES TO DEVELOP ACROSS DEEP E TX/SW AR/NRN LA ATTM...IN VC OF A WEAK SHEAR AXIS THAT REMAINS ACROSS WRN AR/E TX THIS AFTERNOON. DUE TO THE PULSE NATURE OF THESE STORMS...AM HAVING TO AMEND TAFS AS NEEDED FOR CONVECTION IN VC OF THE AFFECTED TERMINALS. HOWEVER...MOSTLY VFR CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE TAF PERIOD...ASIDE FROM THE LOCALLY REDUCED CIGS/VSBYS/WIND GUSTS FROM THE STORMS. CONVECTION SHOULD DIMINISH SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET THIS EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING. PATCHY FG WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT IN AREAS THAT RECEIVE RAINFALL...WITH LOW MVFR CIGS LIKELY REDEVELOPING ACROSS CNTRL TX BY 9Z...SPREADING INTO THE WRN SECTIONS OF E TX/SE OK/WRN AR BY 12Z. BRIEF MVFR CIGS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THESE AREAS FOR A FEW HRS THURSDAY MORNING...BEFORE CIGS BECOME VFR. OTHERWISE...SHEAR AXIS WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS SCNTRL AR/N LA/E TX THURSDAY...WITH SCT AFTERNOON CONVECTION AGAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY EVENING BEFORE DIMINISHING. /15/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 73 91 73 92 / 30 40 30 40 MLU 71 90 71 91 / 30 50 30 50 DEQ 70 92 69 93 / 20 20 20 20 TXK 70 91 72 93 / 20 20 20 20 ELD 69 90 72 92 / 30 30 30 30 TYR 72 92 74 93 / 20 20 20 20 GGG 72 92 73 93 / 30 30 20 30 LFK 72 92 73 92 / 40 40 30 40 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 14/15
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 600 AM CDT WED JUN 25 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>167-251700- 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- 600 AM CDT WED JUN 25 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST AND DEEP EAST TEXAS AND FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD NORTH ACROSS THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA AND ACROSS LOWER TOLEDO BEND COUNTRY AND LOWER PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING AND THEN ACROSS THE REMAINING SECTIONS OF THE FOUR STATE REGION DURING THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE NIGHT. OUTFLOW FROM THE DISSIPATING STORMS THIS MORNING WILL PROVIDE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY INTO THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HIGH AND DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL. HOWEVER MOST LOCATIONS WILL HAVE TYPICAL SUMMERTIME THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LIGHTNING WHICH CAN BE DEADLY...SO IF YOU HEAR THUNDER...REMEMBER THAT YOU CAN BE STRUCK. NO ORGANIZED HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ONGOING THROUGH THE REST OF THE WEEK AND INTO THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK AS THE REGION WILL BE IN A FAVORABLE PATTERN FOR DEVELOPMENT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HIGH AND DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL. HOWEVER MOST LOCATIONS WILL HAVE TYPICAL SUMMERTIME THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LIGHTNING WHICH CAN BE DEADLY...SO IF YOU HEAR THUNDER...REMEMBER THAT YOU CAN BE STRUCK. NO ORGANIZED HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER...HAM RADIO OPERATOR...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACTIVATION...WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. 06
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 150 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:21 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Four inch diameter limbs down with estimated winds near 60 mph in town.
Hail fell on the northwest side of town near the community of Riderville.
One tree was downed along CR 207 northwest of town.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, June 2008
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: 113871, 113880, 113881.