EF1 tornado in Bossier Parish, Louisiana

An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 105 mph touched down near the intersection of Log Ferry Road and Arkansas Line Road in far Northern Bossier Parish, where severe trees were snapped. This tornado moved north across a tree line, where it snapped the tops off of multiple trees, before snapping a couple of power poles along Arkansas Line Road just south of the Arkansas state line. The tornado continued into far Southern Lafayette County Arkansas. The tree damage in Northern Bossier Parish was rated near 95 mph, although multiple snapped power poles resulted in a higher wind rating in Southern Lafayette County Arkansas.

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.