EF1 tornado in Caddo Parish, Louisiana

This is a continuation of the Northwest DeSoto Parish tornado. This EF-1 tornado, with maximum estimated winds near 110 mph, snapped and uprooted multiple trees along Majestic Road and Keatchie Marshall Road east of the Four Forks community, with a roof of a home partially removed off of Keatchie Marshall Road. The tornado tracked northwest across heavily wooded areas north of Four Forks, crossing Highway 169 and Small Road, where additional trees were snapped and uprooted. A single-wide mobile home was flipped upside down at the 9600 block of Horton Road, with two residents trapped inside the structure. One resident sustained minor injuries and was sent to a local hospital for treatment. Trees were downed onto power lines on Springridge Texas Line Road, with additional trees snapped along Bond Road and R on F Way. Damage was most extensive in the Bethany community, where the tornado was strongest, with numerous trees snapped and uprooted, and several homes and other structures sustained roof damage from the tornadic winds and falling trees. This tornado then crossed over to the Texas side of Bethany in Northeast Panola County.

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.