A strong upper level trough shifted east across Northern New Mexico into West Texas during the daytime hours of April 26th, which enhanced surface low development along the dryline in West Texas. Meanwhile, a warm front extended east from this surface low across much of North Texas, bisecting East Texas generally along the Interstate 20 corridor into Northwest and North-central Louisiana.
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The episode as NWS SHV wrote it up.
A strong upper level trough shifted east across Northern New Mexico into West Texas during the daytime hours of April 26th, which enhanced surface low development along the dryline in West Texas. Meanwhile, a warm front extended east from this surface low across much of North Texas, bisecting East Texas generally along the Interstate 20 corridor into Northwest and North-central Louisiana. Showers and thunderstorms along and north of this warm front persisted through the day, given a series of upper level disturbances that ejected northeast ahead of the low atop the front, which kept the warmest temperatures and instability south of the front over Lower East Texas south of I-20 into West-central Louisiana. Large scale forcing increased during the afternoon south of the front and ahead of the eastward advancing dryline, with scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms developing across the warm sector from the mid-afternoon through the evening hours. Some of these storms were severe, with damaging winds and large hail before exiting East Texas by midnight. In wake of these severe storms, a wake low pressure system developed near the I-20 corridor between Longview and Waskom, with multiple measured wind gusts between 40-50 mph across Gregg and Harrison Counties. These strong winds downed several trees across Harrison County before subsiding.
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 Apr 25, 11:57 PM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Shreveport LA 1257 AM CDT Wed Apr 26 2023 ...New AVIATION... .UPDATE... Issued at 920 PM CDT Tue Apr 25 2023 An unsettled weather pattern characterized by mostly cloudy skies and increasing rain chances to persist through the overnight period. A low to mid-level disturbance translating east-northeast across Texas will serve as the source for scattered showers, mainly across northeast Texas into southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas, tonight. Temperatures overnight to fall into the 50s across most of the region with the exception of a few locations across the Ouachitas in southeast Oklahoma remaining nearly steady in the upper 40s. Otherwise, northeast winds around 5 knots tonight to gradually become east by daybreak. Current forecast is on track at this time with no update necessary. /05/ && .SHORT TERM... (This evening through Wednesday Night) Issued at 316 PM CDT Tue Apr 25 2023 The scattered areas of -RA remain persistent this afternoon across Deep E TX/Cntrl LA, as well as Nrn McCurtain County OK and Nrn Sevier and Howard Counties in SW AR, along areas of isentropic ascent noted in the zonal flow aloft. Rainfall amounts have remained quite light, only up to several hundreths of an inch except for extreme Nrn McCurtain County, with this isentropic ascent expected to weaken from W to E during the evening, as it encounters a deeper/drier air mass to the E especially over ECntrl LA. Mostly quiet conditions will continue through the evening, although a weak shortwave trough noted on the water vapor imagery over WCntrl TX is expected to translate E into the region later tonight, and could help to focus scattered convection over much of the area overnight. While weak sfc ridging will persist over the area tonight, thus limiting the return of a more moist/unstable bndry lyr, a Srly low level flow will allow for low level moisture to gradually deepen, as well as moistening from the top down. Have increased pops overnight a bit to account for this, maintaining likely pops NW of the I-30 corridor, while increasing pops to mid to high chance over much of E TX/NW LA/Srn AR. Can't rule out isolated thunder given the marginal lapse rates aloft, although this should diminish from W to E across Srn AR/N LA after daybreak Wednesday. The development of a sfc low along the W TX dryline Wednesday morning will result in a warm front mixing N across Nrn and Ern TX, and eventually into N LA and possibly exteme Srn AR during the late afternoon/evening. This will occur out ahead of a closed low over UT/Nrn AZ, which will slide SE into the TX Panhandle Wednesday afternoon. Shortwave perturbations ejecting NE ahead of this low across Srn and Ern OK should maintain periods of elevated convection N of the front, with the attendant cloud cover limiting the extent of insolation over these areas. Thus, a wide range of temps is likely Wednesday afternoon, with below normal temps again expected as reading struggle to reach 70 degrees, with temps climbing to near or in excess of 80 degrees farther S with the warm fropa. This bndry is expected to become positioned along or just S of the Red River bordering Srn OK/N TX late Wednesday afternoon, just as large scale forcing increases along the bndry ahead of the ejecting low as it lifts NE into Wrn OK. Moderate MLCapes are expected to develop within the warm/moist sector Wednesday afternoon over N TX, with scattered to numerous convection quickly developing near and S of this bndry as it begins to become overtaken by the Ewd moving dryline. While mostly quiet conditions should be observed once the morning convection diminishes, will have to await the intensifying convection along the warm front/dryline intersection as it progresses E into SE OK/extreme NE TX by or shortly after 00Z Thursday, and into more of E TX/SW AR/N LA during the evening/overnight hours. An intensifying Srly LLJ should help to maintain or even intensify the ongoing convection as it enters the better instability areas of E TX, with a damaging winds/hail/isolated tornado risk the primary threats. Will also have to watch for locally heavy rainfall as well as the slow movement of this convection within the moist air mass in place, and potential cell mergers will likely yield good rainfall totals over a relatively short period of time. Have added heavy rainfall mention for much of the region Wednesday night, with the severe threat expected to gradually wane overnight with reduced instability. 15 && .LONG TERM... (Wednesday night through next Monday) Issued at 316 PM CDT Tue Apr 25 2023 By Thursday morning, thunderstorm activity looks to be continuing across northwest and north central Louisiana while beginning to taper off from the west. Precise timing on this system has remained uncertain, so these consensus estimates as represented by NBM ought to still be taken with a grain of salt. That being said, the trend remains for the ArkLaTex to gradually dry out from west to east through the course of the day Thursday, with lower end slight PoPs only completely departing the CWA between 00-06Z Friday. The break in the rainfall looks to be short-lived, however, as the unsettled pattern which brings our mid-week storms will continue late into the week. Upper level flow around a longwave trough reaching from the Rockies in the west to the Appalachians in the east will swing Wednesday's trough north and east by late Thursday, with another shortwave well on the way, pushing south along the Front Range and into north Texas, with a closed low potentially cutting off by late Saturday. This feature will provide the forcing necessary for another round of showers and possible storms to begin as soon as Friday afternoon north and west, expanding areawide overnight and remaining with the ArkLaTex through the day Saturday before finally clearing out overnight into Sunday as the closed low opens back into a shortwave and is absorbed by the larger tough over the Great Lakes region early next week. Temperatures will be fairly variable through the long term period, split between cooler highs in the lower 70s northwest behind the frontal passage Thursday, a slight rebound into the upper 70s to low 80s Friday before Saturday's rainfall keeps highs in the upper 60s to low 70s. Sunday will see a return to more seasonable temperatures in the mid to upper 70s, with quieter, drier conditions and a slight warming trend to follow into early next week. /26/ && .AVIATION... (06Z TAFS) Issued at 1250 AM CDT Wed Apr 26 2023 Scattered convection will be ongoing early in the period across Southeast Oklahoma and portions of Southwest Arkansas and Northeast Texas. An isolated severe storm cannot be ruled out, especially over East Texas. KTYR and KTXK should be the primary TAF sites affected. Model guidance suggests this activity should diminish within the first few hours of the TAF period, but it will be monitored closely. More organized and robust thunderstorms are expected to move southeast into the area after 26/21z. There is some uncertainty regarding how far east this later round of convection will move before the end of the TAF period. However, KTXK, KTYR, and KGGG will likely be affected between 27/00z-27/06z. CN && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 62 76 55 80 / 80 60 20 10 MLU 62 79 60 80 / 60 70 30 10 DEQ 54 72 50 78 / 80 50 20 20 TXK 58 75 54 79 / 80 50 20 10 ELD 56 74 54 78 / 80 70 20 10 TYR 60 75 53 80 / 80 30 10 20 GGG 61 75 53 79 / 80 50 10 10 LFK 63 78 55 83 / 80 50 10 10 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...None. LA...None. OK...None. TX...None. && SHORT TERM...09 LONG TERM....16 AVIATION...09
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Shreveport LA 1212 PM CDT Tue Apr 25 2023 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-261715- 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- 1212 PM CDT Tue Apr 25 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Arkansas, southwest Arkansas, north central Louisiana, northwest Louisiana, southeast Oklahoma, east Texas and northeast Texas. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time through tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. While the timing of severe weather remains uncertain, the best chances for widespread strong thunderstorms will be Wednesday evening, continuing overnight into Thursday. Hail and damaging winds look to be the primary threats associated with these storms. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed.
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
101 AM CDT Wed Apr 26 2023
TXZ096-097-108-109-260645-
Bowie TX-Red River TX-Franklin TX-Titus TX-
101 AM CDT Wed Apr 26 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northern Franklin,
west central Bowie, northern Titus and Red River Counties through 145
AM CDT...
At 101 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles southwest of Hagansport, moving northeast at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Clarksville, Hagansport, Boxelder, Mount Vernon, Bogata, Wilkerson,
Deport, Talco, Avery, Annona, Harts Bluff, Lydia, Cuthand, English,
Johntown and Bryarly.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
&&
LAT...LON 3354 9531 3378 9491 3374 9486 3342 9464
3336 9479 3337 9481 3335 9481 3315 9531
TIME...MOT...LOC 0601Z 239DEG 38KT 3330 9536
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
16Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
156 AM CDT Wed Apr 26 2023
TXZ125-136-137-150-260745-
Upshur TX-Gregg TX-Smith TX-Rusk TX-
156 AM CDT Wed Apr 26 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Smith, northwestern
Rusk, south central Upshur and southwestern Gregg Counties through
245 AM CDT...
At 155 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Chandler, or 9 miles west of Tyler, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Tyler, Kilgore, Whitehouse, Gladewater, Lindale, Overton, New London,
Arp, Clarksville City, Liberty City, Lake Palestine, Noonday, New
Chapel Hill, Winona, Warren City and Laird Hill.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
&&
LAT...LON 3257 9491 3223 9488 3217 9547 3218 9546
3220 9546 3223 9549 3225 9547 3226 9547
3230 9545 3231 9546 3236 9545 3237 9547
3242 9551 3247 9558
TIME...MOT...LOC 0655Z 263DEG 31KT 3232 9547
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
16Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
158 AM CDT Wed Apr 26 2023
ARZ050-059-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-260745-
Sevier AR-Little River AR-McCurtain OK-Bowie TX-Red River TX-
158 AM CDT Wed Apr 26 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Little
River, southwestern Sevier, southeastern McCurtain, northwestern
Bowie and east central Red River Counties through 245 AM CDT...
At 157 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 10
miles north of Boxelder, moving northeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Horatio, Foreman, Winthrop, Arkinda, Avery, Annona, Haworth, Bokhoma,
Moon, Cerrogordo, Beaverdams, Goodlake, Harris, Shinewell, English,
Tom, America and West Otis.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
&&
LAT...LON 3350 9486 3365 9497 3401 9438 3378 9421
TIME...MOT...LOC 0657Z 238DEG 35KT 3362 9484
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
16Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
248 AM CDT Wed Apr 26 2023
ARZ059-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-109-260845-
Little River AR-McCurtain OK-Bowie TX-Red River TX-Titus TX-
248 AM CDT Wed Apr 26 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Little
River, southeastern McCurtain, northwestern Bowie, northeastern Titus
and southeastern Red River Counties through 345 AM CDT...
At 247 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Wilkerson, or 7 miles southwest of Boxelder, moving northeast at 40
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
New Boston, Foreman, Boxelder, De Kalb, Wilkerson, Arkinda, Dalby
Springs, Avery, Annona, Almont, Beaverdams, Harts Bluff, Goodlake,
Lydia, Cuthand, Wallace, Tom and Red Bank.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
&&
LAT...LON 3384 9445 3352 9424 3334 9479 3335 9478
3337 9481 3333 9481 3328 9496 3347 9510
TIME...MOT...LOC 0747Z 242DEG 35KT 3338 9497
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
16The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:08 UTC.
17 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A picture was posted to social media of quarter to half dollar size hail that fell near Jacksonville High School.
Nickel size hail fell in the New Harmony community.
Numerous trees and power lines were downed in Troup.
Trees and power lines were downed in the areas of County Road 2138, 2166, and 2169 just east of Troup.
A mobile home was rolled over on County Road 4623. A tree was also blown down onto a vehicle on County Road 4619, resulting in an injury to the occupant of the vehicle. Both reports occurred near the Henrys Chapel community.
Golfball size hail fell in Arp.
Golfball size hail fell in the Selman City community.
Dime to half dollar size hail fell and covered the ground along FM 838 just south of Overton and New London.
Hail measured slightly larger than 2 inches in diameter (hen egg size) fell in the Turnertown community.
Quarter size hail fell in the Carlisle Price community.
Golfball size hail fell on County Road 405D southwest of Henderson.
Quarter size hail fell near the intersection of Van Buren Street and Highway 64 in Henderson.
Quarter to golfball size hail fell throughout the city of Henderson.
Hail up the size of baseballs fell throughout the city of Henderson. Several reports were received of windshields and skylights broken, along with damaged traffic signals with power outages.
Trees and power lines were downed southwest of Gary City around the area of FM 999 and County Roads 178, 179, and 180. Damage also extends south into Northern Shelby County.
Widespread trees and power lines were blown down near Timpson.
A NWS Storm Survey confirmed that damaging straight-line winds estimated to be near 95 mph snapped and uprooted about 20 softwood and hardwood trees along FM 1970 northwest of Timpson just south of the Panola County line. Wind damage also occurred in the town of Timpson, where roofs were partially ripped off of at least three commercial buildings in town. As the storm continued southeast of Timpson, more widespread straight-line wind damage was noted along County Road 4323 and County Road 4243. All damage was determined to be from straight-line winds due to the orientation of the damage blown in a southeast direction with the movement of the thunderstorm.
Hail slightly smaller than golfballs fell in the James community.
Quarter size hail fell in the Shelbyville community.
Half dollar size hail fell near the Campti community in Shelby County.
Golfball size hail fell in Huxley.
Quarter size hail fell several miles south of Huxley.
Nickel size hail fell along Highway 103 west of Lufkin.
Trees were snapped and uprooted, and a large horse stable was destroyed on Casey Road in the Fuller Springs community southeast of Lufkin.
Strong winds associated with a wake low pressure system that developed behind severe thunderstorms that moved through the area downed a tree on Nolan Street just east of Longview.
Strong winds associated with a wake low pressure system that developed behind severe thunderstorms that moved through the area downed a tree on Interstate 20 West at mile marker 604 just south of Hallsville.
Strong winds associated with a wake low pressure system that developed behind severe thunderstorms that moved through the area downed a tree on Buchanan Road just northeast of Hallsville.
Strong winds associated with a wake low pressure system that developed behind severe thunderstorms that moved through the area downed a tree on Brad Spann Road just northeast of the Crossroads community.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2023Every state in 2023This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 2023
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: 1087017, 1087019, 1087021, 1087023, 1087024, 1087025, 1087026, 1087027, 1087028, 1087031, 1087032, 1087033, 1087034, 1087035, 1087038, 1087040, 1087240, 1087044, 1087045, 1087046, 1087224, 1087223, 1087225, 1087238, 1087242, 1087244, 1087245, 1087247.