Thunderstorm Wind — Red River, Texas

2024-05-08 · near Manchester, Red River, Texas

Event narrative

Trees downed on County Road 2235 near Bagwell.

Wider weather episode

Deep convection began to develop along an advancing dryline across North Central Texas and Southern Oklahoma during the afternoon on May 8th. A very moist and extremely unstable air mass resided east of the dryline, with MLCAPE values in excess of 4000 J/kg. Effective deep-layer shear up to 50 knots with a large cross component to the boundary favored supercell storm mode, with large hail the primary threat. As a result, a couple of supercells generated isolated reports of large hail and damaging wind gusts across parts of extreme Northeast Texas during the evening hours.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1185637. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.