EF1 tornado in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana

An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 90 mph touched down just north of the Campti community, just west of Highway 486. The tornado tracked north across Billy Stiles Road and Stiles Road, before crossing Highway 486 and moving over Black Lake. Road access to locations north of Black Lake were minimal, but damage found concluded that the tornado lifted shortly after crossing Five Forks Road. The damage from this tornado was confined to snapped and uprooted small trees and tree limbs, with the presence of a tornadic debris signature on radar indicating that the tornado continued through areas of limited road access.

Tropical Storm Beryl briefly strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds as it made landfall along the Southeast Texas coast near Matagorda Bay during the early morning hours of July 8th, and tracked north-northeast across East Texas and into Southwest Arkansas during the afternoon and evening hours. While Beryl weakened into a tropical storm over portions of Deep East Texas by mid-afternoon, very strong wind shear and helicity existed near and east of the center, contributing to the largest tornado outbreak in NWS Shreveport history, as well as with any landfalling tropical system. A total of 43 tornadoes were confirmed through NWS surveys across East Texas, North Louisiana, and Southwest Arkansas, before Beryl weakened into a depression by late afternoon over East Texas. As a part of this outbreak, 25 tornadoes touched down across portions of North Louisiana.