EF1 tornado in Caddo Parish, Louisiana

A brief EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 95 mph touched down along Wallace Lake near Cypress Gardens Road along the Caddo/DeSoto Parish line and quickly moved northwest across the lake and over a large wooded area located just south of the western side of the Southern Trace subdivision. A tornadic debris signature (TDS) was indicated on Doppler radar just south of Cypress Gardens Road over the lake. Multiple trees were snapped and uprooted along the tornado's path, before affecting several homes along and behind Saint Francis Way in Southern Trace. The strongest tornado damage was found on private property just south of Southern Trace, where multiple trees were snapped and uprooted, and the tops sheared off. Minor shingle damage was noted to several homes along Saint Francis Way and just south of Southern Trace Parkway, with the tornado then moving through another heavily wooded area behind the homes before ripping the metal roof off of the guard station at the entrance of Southern Trace. The tornado then lifted shortly after crossing Wallace Lake Road before reaching I-49 just south of Southern Loop.

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.