EF1 tornado in Caddo Parish, Louisiana

An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 95 mph touched down near the intersection of Dean Road and Cedar Creek Drive and quickly advanced east northeast across residential areas south of Terry Bradshaw Passway. The tornado eventually crossed the above parkway just west of Mansfield Road, then crossed Mansfield Road and ended in the vicinity of Kingston Road. A large majority of the damage was EF-0 level tree damage with just a few pockets of low level EF-1 damage at Southwood High School and just off of Walker Road. At the high school, a weight training facility separated from the main school building lost most of the roof covering, with debris blown hundreds of yards to the north. Otherwise, some structures in the tornado path were damaged by uprooted trees and downed limbs, but fortunately there were no reported injuries or fatalities.

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 into North Louisiana. 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 with 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 Northwest Louisiana with the mature squall line. Given the expanding heavy rain shield and cold pool, an isolated report of flash flooding was also recorded.