Thunderstorm Wind — Rusk, Texas

2025-04-30 · near Overton, Rusk, Texas

Event narrative

Trees were blown down in Overton.

Wider weather episode

A weak cold front slowly advanced southeast into portions of Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma, into Western Arkansas and Southern Missouri on April 30th, and focused a warm, very moist, and unstable air mass in place across much of East Texas, North Louisiana, and Southwest Arkansas during the afternoon through the evening hours. Meanwhile, an upper low pressure area ejected northeast from the Desert Southwest into the Texas Panhandle, with deep southwest flow aloft yielding weak disturbances along the front to induce large scale forcing across much of East Texas and Southwest Arkansas. As a result, a complex of strong to severe thunderstorms developed and spread into areas along and to the southeast of the front, yielding instances of damaging winds and large hail across portions of Northeast Texas during the afternoon. While these storms weakened by early evening, additional thunderstorm redevelopment occurred during the evening into a portion of the overnight hours on May 1st along the slow moving front, resulting in locally heavy rainfall and areas of flash flooding generally along and south of Interstate 20 across portions of Smith, Cherokee, and Harrison Counties.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1257163. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.