Thunderstorm Wind — Smith, Texas

2025-03-04 · near Peaceful Vly, Smith, Texas

Event narrative

Power lines downed on top of a car near the intersection of Kinsey Drive and Loop 323.

Wider weather episode

A very mature squall line developed along and ahead of an advancing cold front across the Ark-La-Tex region during the mid to late morning into early afternoon on March 4th. Damaging wind gusts were the primary threat with this squall line, but numerous strong mesovorticies became embedded within this quasi-linear convective system (QLCS). Dew points were in the mid to upper 60s with over 500 J/kg of MLCAPE and 450 m2/s2 of 0-1 km storm relative helicity (SRH). As temperatures continued to warm into the lower 70s with MLCAPE increasing to around 1000 J/kg MLCAPE, the increasing threat of supercell thunderstorm development only heightened the tornado threat. As a result, numerous reports of damaging straight-line wind gusts and several tornadoes were documented across East and Northeast Texas.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1247943. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.