EF1 tornado in Bossier Parish, Louisiana

A brief EF-1 tornado, with maximum estimated winds near 95 mph, touched down several miles southwest of Plain Dealing southeast of Highway 2 near Dutch John Road. The tornado then tracked northwest, crossing Highway 2 and Highway 537 where it snapped numerous trees, one of which landed on a home on Highway 537, before lifting along 537 just north of Millers Bluff Road. This tornado was spawned from the same parent storm that produced the Northern Red River/Central Bossier Parish long track tornado earlier in the afternoon.

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.