Flash Flood in Sabine Parish, Louisiana

Flash flooding reported with high water covering the roadway on Highway 474 near Yellow Pine Road.

Numerous showers and thunderstorms developed across the Four State Region on March 28th in response to an upper-level disturbance moving across the Red River Valley of North Texas and Southern Oklahoma. As the afternoon hours progressed, strong southerly flow allowed for temperatures and dew points to rise, creating a more unstable atmosphere with MLCAPE values approaching 1000 J/kg. Thunderstorms started to strengthen in intensity during this period, with modest shear profiles across East Texas, Western Louisiana and adjacent Southwest Arkansas. Rotational signatures were detected in several of the stronger storms through the evening hours. This required the issuance of several tornado warnings across the aforementioned areas. As a result, an EF0 tornado was reported in Caddo Parish. There was also some locally heavy rainfall with this event, with flash flooding being reported in Sabine Parish.