EF1 tornado in Caddo Parish, Louisiana

This brief EF1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 93 mph touched down in the North Highlands neighborhood of North Shreveport. It initially began along Booth Drive and moved east snapping the trunks of a couple of hardwood trees and downing large limbs from softwood trees. A few metal roof panels were also removed from an outbuilding on Highway 3049/Dixie Shreveport Road. The tornado's end point was placed here as no additional damage was located. Much of the property between this point and the Red River consisted of open fields. No consistent damage track was located east of the Red River in Bossier Parish. The tornado had a width of 225 yards and tracked just less than one mile.

A very mature squall line developed along and ahead of an advancing cold front across the Ark-La-Tex region during the late morning through the afternoon hours 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 into the afternoon. As a result, numerous reports of damaging straight-line wind gusts and several tornadoes were documented across North Louisiana along with isolated flash flooding.