Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed during the early evening hours of June 26th, as an outflow boundary interacted with an unstable air mass and a weak northwest to southeast surface boundary extending from Northern McCurtain County Oklahoma and across northern Howard, Hempstead, and southern Clark Counties in Southwest Arkansas . One strong thunderstorm affected eastern Howard County,…
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Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed during the early evening hours of June 26th, as an outflow boundary interacted with an unstable air mass and a weak northwest to southeast surface boundary extending from Northern McCurtain County Oklahoma and across northern Howard, Hempstead, and southern Clark Counties in Southwest Arkansas . One strong thunderstorm affected eastern Howard County, and produced strong localized wind gusts to down a few trees on the south side of Nashville shortly after 830 pm.
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 26, 6:01 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 701 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2014 .AVIATION... FOR THE 27/00Z TAFS...DAYTIME CONVECTION IS GRADUALLY DIMINISHING ACROSS THE AREA...BUT WILL REMAIN A THREAT AT OUR S AR/N LA SITES FOR THE FIRST FEW HOURS OF THIS TAF PERIOD BEFORE MOSTLY ENDING. MVFR/IFR CIGS SHOULD REDEVELOP PRIOR TO SUNRISE ON FRIDAY WITH A VERY MOISTURE RICH BOUNDARY LAYER IN PLACE. PATCHY FOG WILL ALSO BE A CONCERN AS WELL...PRIMARILY IN THOSE AREAS WHERE RAINFALL HAS RECENTLY OCCURRED SO VSBYS MAY DROP TO MVFR AT TIMES NEAR DAYBREAK. SOUTH WINDS EXPECTED TO DROP OFF TO 10 KTS OR LESS OVERNIGHT AND THEN INCREASE BY LATE MORNING TO 12-18 KTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 25 KTS. CONVECTION WILL BEGIN TO RAMP UP ONCE AGAIN AS WELL FROM LATE MORNING THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF THE TAF PERIOD. /19/ && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 251 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2014/ DISCUSSION... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 THIS AFTERNOON TO CONTINUE STREAMING NORTH AND EAST INTO THE EVENING HOURS BEFORE GRADUALLY DISSIPATING. UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH ACROSS TEXAS TO SHIFT EAST OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS ALLOWING FOR DAYTIME PRECIPITATION COVERAGE TO GRADUALLY DIMINISH THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND. OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL INTO THE UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S TONIGHT AND FRIDAY NIGHT WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES TO CLIMB INTO THE MID TO UPPER 80S ON FRIDAY. SOUTH WINDS TO INCREASE TO 15 TO 20 MPH DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS ON FRIDAY...SATURDAY...AND SUNDAY AS A SURFACE LOW DEEPENS ACROSS THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...ALLOWING FOR AN ENHANCED PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE REGION. COULD SEE LAKE WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA BEING MET ESPECIALLY ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ACROSS EAST TEXAS. UPPER-LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS THE GULF OF MEXICO TO BUILD NORTH ACROSS THE REGION THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND ALLOWING FOR DRY CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. ASIDE FROM MORNING LOW CLOUDS...MOSTLY CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES TO PREVAIL WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES TO CLIMB INTO THE LOW TO MID 90S EACH DAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 71 86 71 91 74 / 40 50 20 30 20 MLU 69 85 69 88 72 / 60 60 30 30 20 DEQ 69 85 70 88 73 / 30 30 20 20 10 TXK 70 86 70 89 73 / 40 40 20 20 10 ELD 69 86 69 88 72 / 50 60 30 30 20 TYR 71 87 74 90 74 / 30 30 20 20 10 GGG 70 88 72 91 74 / 30 30 20 20 10 LFK 72 88 72 92 75 / 30 40 20 30 20 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 19
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1233 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2014 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077- TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-271745- 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- 1233 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2014 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 TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED ACROSS MOST OF THE FOUR STATE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING POSSIBLE WITH SOME STORMS. ANY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LATER TODAY WILL ALSO HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING STRONG WIND GUSTS. NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OR FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY WITH DECREASING COVERAGE EXPECTED ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL BE LIKELY WITH ISOLATED STRONG STORMS PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS. OTHERWISE...NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE WEEKEND INTO THE MIDDLE PART OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. 05
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
824 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2014
ARZ051-060-270215-
HEMPSTEAD-HOWARD-
824 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...
HEMPSTEAD AND HOWARD...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
NASHVILLE...
AT 822 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
DETECTING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF WASHINGTON...OR 10
MILES SOUTHEAST OF MINERAL SPRINGS...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
19The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 157 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:33 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees were downed on the south side of Nashville, Arkansas.
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