Peak afternoon heating and a cold frontal boundary were all the ingredients needed for strong to severe thunderstorms across portions of Sevier County, Arkansas. These storms produced damaging downburst winds which downed trees and powerlines across portions of the county.
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The episode as NWS SHV wrote it up.
Peak afternoon heating and a cold frontal boundary were all the ingredients needed for strong to severe thunderstorms across portions of Sevier County, Arkansas. These storms produced damaging downburst winds which downed trees and powerlines across portions of the county.
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 Sep 2, 3:13 PM CST, 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 413 PM CDT MON SEP 2 2013 .DISCUSSION... AT 2040Z...COLD FRONT WAS ROUGHLY MARKED BY A CU FIELD EXTENDING FROM WRN N TX...INTO SE OK...TO THE BOOTHEEL OF MO. SCT CONVECTION HAS BEGUN TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE FRONT NORTH OF THE I-30 CORRIDOR. FARTHER SOUTH...CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED ALONG OLD OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM DEEP E TX NEWD TOWARDS KMLU. CLOUD COVER ACROSS THE CNTRL PORTIONS OF THE CWA HAVE RESULTED IN A VARIATION OF TEMPS...RANGING ANYWHERE FROM THE UPPER 80S TO UPPER 90S. MESOANALYSIS SUGGESTS CAPE VALUES ARE BETWEEN 1500-2500 J/KG. BOTH AREAS OF TSTMS SHOULD INCREASE IN COVERAGE...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE COLD FRONT. ONE OR TWO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING IN THE FORM OF A DAMAGING WIND THREAT FROM DOWNBURSTS OR BOWING CLUSTERS. 12Z KSHV SOUNDING INDICATED PW VALUES OVER 2 INCHES AS WELL AS VERY WEAK STEERING FLOW ALOFT. THIS COULD LEAD TO A LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING THREAT WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. CONVECTIVE COVERAGE/INTENSITY SHOULD GRADUALLY DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET BUT SOME SHWRS/TSTMS WILL PERSIST AS THE FRONT PROGRESSES SWD. COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO BECOME QUASI-STATIONARY NEAR THE I-20 CORRIDOR BY TUESDAY MORNING. THUS...ANY CONVECTION ON TUESDAY SHOULD BE CONFINED TO THE SRN HALF OF THE CWA. ANOTHER WEAK UPPER DISTURBANCE IN THE NLY FLOW ALOFT SHOULD HELP PUSH THE FRONT SOUTH OF THE CWA BY LATE TUESDAY NIGHT/EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING WHERE IT WILL STALL AGAIN AND BECOME RATHER DIFFUSE. SFC HIGH WILL BUILD IN FROM THE NE IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT AND SHOULD USHER IN SOME SLIGHTLY COOLER AND DRIER AIR. THIS SHOULD KEEP TEMPS BELOW THE CENTURY MARK FOR MOST OF THE EXTENDED PERIODS. AFTERNOON HIGHS ACROSS E TX WILL GRADUALLY CREEP INTO THE UPPER 90S BY THE END OF THE WORK WEEK BUT THE RAINFALL AND THE SLIGHTLY COOLER SFC HIGH SHOULD KEEP TEMPS JUST BELOW 100 DEGREES F. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANCES FOR RAIN ARE EXPECTED BEYOND TUESDAY. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS NOW BRING THE CENTER OF THE UPPER RIDGE BACK OVER SRN PLAINS/OZARKS BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE BEST HOPE FOR ANY RAINFALL DURING THE EXTENDED PERIODS WILL LIKELY BE IN THE FORM OF DIURNALLY DRIVEN CONVECTION FROM ANY SEA-BREEZE INFLUENCE ACROSS DEEP E TX/CNTRL LA. /09/ && .AVIATION... MVFR FLIGHT CATEGORIES...DUE CEILING AND VISIBILITY RESTRICTIONS... LIKELY IN AND NEAR SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF EAST TEXAS AND ACROSS LOWER NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA ASSOCIATED WITH OUTFLOW FROM MORNING ACTIVITY...AND ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA INTO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS NEAR THE SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT ADVANCING SOUTH EVER SO SLOWLY. IN HEAVY DOWNPOURS...IFR FLIGHT CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR BRIEFLY. A LARGE MIDDLE LEVEL CLOUD DECK...BETWEEN 8 KFT TO 12 KFT...ABOVE THE LOWER CLOUDS AND CEILINGS. WILL INCLUDE MENTION OF VCSH AND VCTS IN TERMINALS WHERE CONVECTION MAY DEVELOP AND SPREAD AND TEMPO IN THUNDERSTORMS WHERE MORE OBVIOUS. MVFR/IFR FLIGHT CATEGORIES POSSIBLE BETWEEN 03/09 UTC TO 03/16 UTC ON TUESDAY ALONG AND NEAR THE COLD FRONT. WINDS VARIABLE 5 TO 10 MPH...MORE GUSTY NEAR STORMS...AND BECOMING NORTHERLY IN WAKE OF SURFACE BOUNDARY LATE TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY. /06/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 96 73 95 71 95 / 30 30 20 10 10 MLU 96 72 95 68 95 / 30 30 20 10 10 DEQ 94 65 95 64 95 / 30 20 10 10 10 TXK 94 70 95 67 95 / 30 30 10 10 10 ELD 94 70 94 66 94 / 30 30 10 10 10 TYR 95 73 96 73 96 / 40 30 10 10 10 GGG 95 73 96 72 95 / 30 30 20 10 10 LFK 98 73 95 72 96 / 20 30 20 20 20 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 09/06
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1213 PM CDT MON SEP 2 2013 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-OKZ077-TXZ096-097- 108>112-124>126-136>138-149>151-031100- 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-MCCURTAIN- BOWIE-FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH- GREGG-HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK-PANOLA- 1213 PM CDT MON SEP 2 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP NEAR THE INTERSTATE 30 CORRIDOR LATER THIS AFTERNOON. ONE OR TWO ISOLATED STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH A THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THEREFORE...LOCALIZED FLOODING COULD OCCUR...ESPECIALLY IF SLOW MOVING STORMS OCCUR IN AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON TUESDAY AS THE COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO SLOWLY MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION. THE GREATEST CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL GENERALLY BE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. AFTER A PERIOD OF DRY WEATHER...A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... DUE TO THE EXPECTED ISOLATED NATURE OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. LAZ017>022-TXZ152-153-165>167-031100- SABINE LA-NATCHITOCHES-WINN-GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-NACOGDOCHES- SHELBY-ANGELINA-SAN AUGUSTINE-SABINE TX- 1213 PM CDT MON SEP 2 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND EAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT BEGINS TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. THE STRONGEST STORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE FOR MUCH OF TUESDAY AS THE FRONT SLOWLY MOVES SOUTH. THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALMOST EVERY AFTERNOON FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. HOWEVER...ORGANIZED HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. 09
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1108 AM CDT MON SEP 02 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0900 AM FLASH FLOOD LONGVIEW 32.52N 94.76W
09/02/2013 GREGG TX BROADCAST MEDIA
ROADS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING IN LONGVIEW. CARS STALLED
IN HIGH WATER.
&&
EVENT NUMBER SHV1300344
09SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
238 PM CDT MON SEP 2 2013
LAZ005-006-014-022030-
LINCOLN-OUACHITA-UNION-
238 PM CDT MON SEP 2 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
PARISHES...
IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
UNION...OUACHITA AND LINCOLN...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
BROWNSVILLE-BAWCOMVILLE...CLAIBORNE...MONROE AND WEST MONROE...
AT 228 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
DETECTING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR DOWNSVILLE...AS WELL AS OTHERS
THAT MAY BECOME AS STRONG NEAR FOLKSVILLE AND JUST SOUTHWEST OF
DARBONNE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE DUE TO
THE SLOWER MOVEMENT WHICH CAN PRODUCE AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES
IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME...AFFECTING LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS.
06The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:21 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were downed in and just west of De Queen, Arkansas.
Trees were downed north of Ben Lomond or near the community of Oak Grove.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, September 2013
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: 466146, 466147.