A very tropical like airmass resided across the four state region during the afternoon and evening hours of August 6th. A weak frontal boundary was stalled across northern Texas into southern Arkansas.
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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.
A very tropical like airmass resided across the four state region during the afternoon and evening hours of August 6th. A weak frontal boundary was stalled across northern Texas into southern Arkansas. This combined with a weak disturbance aloft to produce showers and thunderstorms in a very unstable environment. Storms that developed were prolific lightning producers and as they decayed, produced strong and damaging wind gusts along with some small 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 Aug 6, 9:10 AM CST, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1125 AM CDT FRI AUG 6 2010 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077- TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-071100- 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- 1125 AM CDT FRI AUG 6 2010 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 STRONG UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS IN CONTROL OF THE WEATHER ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY REGION. ALTHOUGH HIGH TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED TO BE SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN THURSDAY...THEY WILL STILL REACH INTO THE MID AND UPPER NINETIES. THESE TEMPERATURES...WHEN COMBINED WITH A VERY HUMID AIRMASS...WILL AGAIN RESULT IN HEAT INDICES OF 105 TO 108 DEGREES. THUS...A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA THROUGH THIS EVENING. AREA RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO DRINK PLENTY OF WATER...STAY IN AN AIR CONDITIONED ROOM AND OUT OF THE SUN...AND CHECK UP ON RELATIVES...NEIGHBORS...AND PETS. AS THE RIDGE CONTINUES TO DRIFT WESTWARD TODAY...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN. A WEAK FRONT WILL SLOWLY SINK INTO THE REGION FROM THE NORTH...AND WILL LIKELY SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR SOME OF THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH A FEW ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS CANNOT BE RULED OUT...NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... AFTERNOON SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO THE UPCOMING WORK WEEK...AS THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDS NORTHEAST INTO OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS. GIVEN THAT TEMPERATURES WILL REACH INTO THE MID TO UPPER 90S MOST DAYS... INSTABILITY WILL BE SUCH THAT AN ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUST CANNOT BE RULED OUT. HOWEVER...NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. ELEVEN
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
108 PM CDT FRI AUG 6 2010
TXZ096-108-109-061915-
FRANKLIN-RED RIVER-TITUS-
108 PM CDT FRI AUG 6 2010
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...
RED RIVER...TITUS AND FRANKLIN...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
BAGWELL...BOGATA...BOXELDER...CLARKSVILLE...HAGANSPORT...MOUNT
PLEASANT AND WILKERSON...
AT 103 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
DETECTING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BOGATA...OR 6 MILES NORTH OF
HAGANSPORT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
14The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 28 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:23 UTC.
2 lightning, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The local Dairy Queen and Sonic restaurants in Benton were struck by lightning. Damage was determined to be fairly minimal.
Penny sized hail was reported at the Brookshires grocery storm on Hwy. 3 in Benton, Louisiana.
Lightning hit a home at the intersection of Ascension Circle and St. Tammany Court in southeast Shreveport. The lightning strike resulted in a fire that took about one half hour to contain.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, August 2010
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 238853, 238851, 238856.