EF1 tornado in Webster Parish, Louisiana

An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 105 mph touched down in the Old Shongaloo community south of Sand Hill Road, where multiple trees were snapped and uprooted. A tree was downed onto a vehicle and a shed was damaged while tin was peeled off of an old barn. The tornado continued to the north-northwest and crossed Baker Road before crossing into Southern Columbia 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.