Scattered thunderstorms formed as a result of a short wave moving over a |moist and very unstable atmosphere. Isolated thunderstorms became |briefly severe.
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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.
Scattered thunderstorms formed as a result of a short wave moving over a |moist and very unstable atmosphere. Isolated thunderstorms became |briefly severe. Late in the evening, additional thunderstorms developed across|north central Texas and southern Oklahoma and moved east towards the interstate|30 corridor. These storms quickly became severe, producing large hail during|the late night hours.
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 May 26, 8:24 AM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 924 AM CDT TUE MAY 26 2009 .DISCUSSION... MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE COMPLEX ENTERING CWA THIS MORNING. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS...GOING WITH LIKELY POPS NORTHWEST. LOOK FOR THE CONVECTION TO DECREASE TOWARD LATE MORNING. HOWEVER... MORNING SHV SOUNDING VERY UNSTABLE...SO ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY SOUTH AND EAST OF CURRENT CONVECTION. WILL ADJUST SKY AND TEMPS DUE TO THE EXTRA CLOUD COVER GENERATED BY THE CONVECTION. && .AVIATION... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION TODAY BRINGING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO AREA TERMINALS. EXPECTING LATE MORNING SHOWER ACTIVITY NEAR TYR/GGG WITH AFTERNOON CHANCES DEVELOPING FOR SHV/MLU/ELD. OTHERWISE...LIGHT SOUTHWEST WINDS ALONG WITH VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THE PERIOD./05/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 88 68 85 64 87 / 50 40 50 20 10 MLU 87 69 86 64 87 / 40 40 50 20 10 DEQ 84 64 78 58 82 / 60 40 50 10 10 TXK 84 66 80 60 82 / 50 40 50 10 10 ELD 87 67 85 60 85 / 50 40 50 20 10 TYR 85 68 84 62 86 / 40 40 50 10 10 GGG 87 67 84 61 86 / 40 40 50 10 10 LFK 88 68 86 66 87 / 50 30 40 20 10 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 14/05
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1215 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 2009 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077- TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-271715- 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- 1215 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 2009 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... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION...AS DAYTIME HEATING COMBINES WITH UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES AND A VERY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND GUSTY WINDS. NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD OVERNIGHT ALONG A SURFACE COLD FRONT AND SPREAD SOUTHEAST. MOST OF THE STORMS OVERNIGHT WILL LIKELY OCCUR ALONG AND NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 30 CORRIDOR. A FEW STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS IN THE VICINITY OF THE SURFACE FRONT...HOWEVER WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTER GROUPS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:34 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A large tree was downed on a home on Oak Isle Drive. There were no report of injuries.
An oil tank was struck by lightning on FM 1795 just north of the Kelsey Community. The tank was destroyed.
Trees were downed in the western portion of the county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 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: 171863, 175109, 171864, 171866, 171867.