Thunderstorm Wind — Lafayette, Arkansas

2024-04-28 · near Bradley, Lafayette, Arkansas

Event narrative

Trees downed across Highway 160 east of Bradley.

Wider weather episode

Regenerative thunderstorm development occurred during the afternoon on April 28th across Central Texas along existing outflows from an MCS that decayed earlier in the morning. Surface temperatures continued to warm into the upper 70s to lower 80s within cloud breaks south and east of the large-scale outflow boundary across East Texas and Southwest Arkansas. This led to moderate buoyancy with upper 60s to lower 70s surface dew points. Upscale growth continued along the regenerating MCS as it propagated farther east across the Ark-La-Tex early into the evening. With a favorable deep layer wind profile (0-6km shear near 50 knots), supercells were possible within any emerging thunderstorm clusters. Although shear profiles favored supercells, primary storm mode remained the MCS. Even so, a few tornadoes resulted within embedded circulations, along a few very discrete storm structures that evolved independently of the MCS. Meanwhile, the leading edge of a surging bow echo resulted in widespread damaging winds across Miller and Lafayette Counties with the mature squall line.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1176736. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.