Scattered thunderstorms developed late in the afternoon on September 24th across Deep East Texas and North Louisiana along a slow-moving frontal boundary draped across the region. A few of these thunderstorms quickly pulsed and managed to reach severe limits in Caldwell Parish where instability was maximized during the afternoon peak heating.
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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.
Scattered thunderstorms developed late in the afternoon on September 24th across Deep East Texas and North Louisiana along a slow-moving frontal boundary draped across the region. A few of these thunderstorms quickly pulsed and managed to reach severe limits in Caldwell Parish where instability was maximized during the afternoon peak heating. As a result, a few reports of damaging winds and large hail were documented near Columbia, Clarks, and Grayson.
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:03 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees downed near Columbia, Clarks, and Grayson communities.
Quarter size hail fell in the Columbia, Clarks, and Grayson communities.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1217159, 1217556.