EF1 tornado in De Soto Parish, Louisiana

An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 110 mph touched down in a heavily wooded area north of Brown Road and east of Smyrna Road southeast of the Longstreet community, and tracked northwest into the Smyrna community. A singlewide manufactured home was destroyed with debris oriented to the southeast near the intersection of Poag Road and Smyrna Road. The home did not appear to be anchored down, with several trees snapped adjacent to the unit. Multiple pine trees were snapped in the Smyrna community along Highway 3015, an awning was ripped off of a church, and the roof was partially torn off. The tornado continued to the northwest near the town of Keachi, where numerous trees were snapped and uprooted, and power poles were snapped along its track. Several homes and structures were also damaged near Keachi, before the tornado moved into Southwest Caddo Parish.

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.