Scattered strong storms developed during the heating of the afternoon across Northeast Texas and Northwest Louisiana. These storms developed along a residual outflow boundary from previous convection that had developed ahead of a weak upper level disturbance.
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Scattered strong storms developed during the heating of the afternoon across Northeast Texas and Northwest Louisiana. These storms developed along a residual outflow boundary from previous convection that had developed ahead of a weak upper level disturbance. This outflow boundary and complex of storms moved almost due south into Northwest Louisiana and the storms were prolific lightning producers. A motel was struck by lightning from one of these storms.
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 27, 1:49 PM CST, 51 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Shreveport LA 249 PM CDT WED JUL 27 2016 .DISCUSSION... Enhanced sea breeze/tropical moisture surge has resulted in near- widespread coverage of shwrs/tstms this afternoon. This has kept our temps from warming much, at least relatively speaking, especially across n LA/srn AR. Weak upper trof will spill over the ern periphery of the Four Corners ridge and swd into our region tonight into Thursday, merging with the stalled ely wave present over ern LA. This will continue our chances for enhanced diurnal convection through Friday and Saturday, although most recent raw model output has trimmed back on coverage. Consensus blends continue to keep our temps below normal with PoPs in the 40-60 percent range. However, PoPs have been overdone in the last several days, so have trended them down some from guidance. Subsequently, feel that guidance may be too cool on max temps, so have trended a few degrees above. With convective coverage dwindling during the weekend, we may be looking at the possibility of Heat Advisories again. The upper ridge will begin to flex its influence over our region as we move into next work week. Models keeping some chances for aftn convection mainly over the ern half of the region, but we will likely see our temps reaching back into the upper 90s sometime next week despite this. /12/ && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 1221 PM CDT WED JUL 27 2016/ DISCUSSION... Widely scattered showers and thunderstorms have developed across SW AR, Central and North Central Louisiana this afternoon. These showers will persist through the reminder of the 28/18Z TAF package and should diminish during the overnight hours. For the 28/18Z TAFS VFR conditions will prevail through most of the TAF period with CU ranging from 5KFT TO 7KFT developing during the afternoon. Terminal sites that receive rain could see vsbys drop to 3SM to 4SM with some of the stronger showers and thunderstorms otherwise vsbys should be unlimited. Winds will remain out of the S/SW ranging from 5 to 10 kts before decreasing during the overnight hours to light and variable. Locations that receive rain overnight could see fog/hz develop with light winds and moisture in place. /21/ PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 1117 AM CDT WED JUL 27 2016/ DISCUSSION... Overnight/early morning convection across srn AR/n LA continues to diminish. However, diurnal convection has shown some increase over the last hour or so, and this should be enhanced by the upper level low over ern LA today. Have made some minor adjustments to cloud cover and PoPs to better represent current conditions/trends, but these should have little impact in the text products overall. Temps look to be on track, especially when cloud cover/convective coverage are taken into account, so will not be making any changes there. /12/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 75 91 76 94 / 30 50 20 30 MLU 74 89 74 92 / 40 50 20 40 DEQ 74 89 73 92 / 40 50 20 40 TXK 75 88 74 91 / 40 50 20 40 ELD 73 87 74 90 / 40 50 20 40 TYR 76 93 76 95 / 30 40 20 30 GGG 75 91 75 94 / 30 40 20 30 LFK 76 94 76 96 / 20 40 20 30 && .SHV Watches/Warnings/Advisories... AR...None. LA...None. OK...None. TX...None. && 12
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1147 AM CDT WED JUL 27 2016 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077- TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-281700- SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE- COLUMBIA-UNION-CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN-DE SOTO- RED RIVER-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-SABINE-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- 1147 AM CDT WED JUL 27 2016 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 WILL BE POSSIBLE AREAWIDE TODAY. GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE DURING PEAK DAYTIME HEATING FROM THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THE STRONGEST STORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. IN ADDITION...HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL RANGE BETWEEN 100 AND 105 SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. 12
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 19 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:40 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A Holiday Inn Express Hotel was struck by lightning resulting in a small fire on the roof of the hotel. There were no injuries reported.
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