Widespread showers and thunderstorms developed in a very unstable airmass across northeast Texas, southwest Arkansas as well as northwest and north central Louisiana. This activity developed along and in the wake of a strong outflow boundary.
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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.
Widespread showers and thunderstorms developed in a very unstable airmass across northeast Texas, southwest Arkansas as well as northwest and north central Louisiana. This activity developed along and in the wake of a strong outflow boundary. These storms produced widespread wind damage along with spotty large hail.
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 16, 5:49 PM CST, 35 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT THU JUL 16 2009 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-108-109-111-112-171100- BOWIE-CASS-COLUMBIA-FRANKLIN-HEMPSTEAD-HOWARD-LAFAYETTE-LITTLE RIVER- MCCURTAIN-MILLER-MORRIS-NEVADA-RED RIVER TX-SEVIER-TITUS-UNION AR- 1200 PM CDT THU JUL 16 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY NORTH AND EAST OF A BROKEN BOW OKLAHOMA TO MAGNOLIA ARKANSAS LINE. THESE STORMS SHOULD NOT BE SEVERE...HOWEVER STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. TONIGHT...A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND EVENTUALLY NORTHEAST TEXAS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE IN ISOLATED STORMS. OTHERWISE...A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT TODAY WITH HEAT INDICES BETWEEN 105 AND 109 DEGREES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER INTO THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEKEND. HOWEVER...A COLD FRONT WILL BRING SLIGHTLY COOLER AND DRIER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY LATER TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS, . LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-TXZ110-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167- 171100- ANGELINA-BIENVILLE-BOSSIER-CADDO-CALDWELL-CAMP-CHEROKEE-CLAIBORNE- DE SOTO-GRANT-GREGG-HARRISON-JACKSON-LA SALLE-LINCOLN-MARION- NACOGDOCHES-NATCHITOCHES-OUACHITA-PANOLA-RED RIVER LA-RUSK-SABINE LA- SABINE TX-SAN AUGUSTINE-SHELBY-SMITH-UNION LA-UPSHUR-WEBSTER-WINN- WOOD- 1200 PM CDT THU JUL 16 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...EAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...SOUTHEAST OF A HOMER LOUISIANA TO SAN AUGUSTINE TEXAS LINE. STORMS SHOULD NOT BE SEVERE...HOWEVER STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AREA WIDE TONIGHT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS. THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. OTHERWISE...A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT TODAY WITH HEAT INDICES BETWEEN 105 AND 109 DEGREES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER INTO THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEKEND. HOWEVER...A COLD FRONT WILL BRING SLIGHTLY COOLER AND DRIER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... DUE TO THE VERY ISOLATED NATURE OF ANY POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
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</html>SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
658 PM CDT THU JUL 16 2009
ARZ070-170045-
MILLER-
658 PM CDT THU JUL 16 2009
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...
MILLER...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
BRIGHTSTAR AND DODDRIDGE...
AT 656 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS ARE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF BRIGHTSTAR...OR 12 MILES EAST OF
ATLANTA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
SHOULD THIS STORM INTENSIFY...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE
NEEDED.
15PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
720 PM CDT THU JUL 16 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0704 PM NON-TSTM WND GST EL DORADO 33.22N 92.66W
07/16/2009 M59 MPH UNION AR ASOS
&&
18The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:23 UTC.
18 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Powerlines were downed in the community of Haynesville, Louisiana.
A tree was downed on Scott Drive in the community of Plain Dealing, Louisiana.
Trees were downed north of Rodessa, Louisiana.
Several trees and power lines were downed across the town of Homer, Louisiana.
Powerlines were downed on Hwy. 157 near the Bellevue, community.
A tree was downed 7 miles southwest of Homer, Louisiana along Hwy. 79.
Several trees and powerlines were downed in the community of Bernice, Louisiana.
Several locations around the town of Benton are without power from downed powerlines.
A tree was downed on Dogwood Drive in Haughton, Louisiana.
Power is out across the city of Blanchard, Louisiana resulting from downed powerlines.
Several trees were downed across Bossier City, Louisiana.
Strong winds downed a tree onto a home in Bossier City. No injuries were reported.
Trees were downed at the intersection of Flournoy Lucas and Linwood Roads.
A tree fell on an unoccupied truck on Atlantic Avenue in the Broadmore area of Shreveport.
A tree was downed at the intersection of Martin and Washington Street in West Monroe, Louisiana.
High water was reported across Hwy. 3 from excessive heavy rainfall.
A large tree was downed at the intersection of Hwy. 4 and Hwy. 790.
A large tree was downed on Hwy. 4 and another tree was downed on Danvey Road near Ringgold, Louisiana.
A large tree was downed blocking the road at Hwy. 507 just south of Castor, Louisiana.
Lightning struck a home resulting in a fire at the 6000 block of Arden Street in Shreveport. No injuries were reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, July 2009
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: 188007, 188021, 188014, 188011, 188022, 188010, 188024, 188016, 188023, 188020, 188025, 188063, 188048, 188066, 188034, 188040, 188047, 188045, 188046, 188061.