Thunderstorm Wind — Camp, Texas

2023-07-02 · near Newsome, Camp, Texas

Event narrative

Trees and power lines were downed in the Newsome community.

Wider weather episode

A broad positively tilted upper trough extended from the Great Lakes Region and Midwest into Southern Oklahoma during the afternoon of July 2nd, which helped to reinforce a weak surface front south into East Texas and Southwest Arkansas. Strong heating within a moist air mass resulted in strong instability developing during the afternoon, with large scale forcing adequate enough for the development of widely scattered showers and thunderstorms across portions of East Texas during the afternoon. A couple of these storms became severe, with damaging winds downing trees and power lines in the Newsome community in Camp County, and a 60 mph wind gust measured at the East Texas Regional Airport south of Longview in Gregg County before the storms diminished during the evening.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1100444. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.