Thunderstorm Wind in Sabine County, Texas

Trees and power lines were downed along Bayou Bend.

An upper level trough traversed east across the Southern Plains on May 2nd, which reinforced a weak cold front southeast into portions of extreme Northeast Texas and Southwest Arkansas along the I-30 corridor by afternoon. Strong daytime heating contributed to ample air mass destabilization through the day across the warm and moist sector ahead of the front, with scattered severe thunderstorms developing by midday through much of the afternoon across East Texas. These storms produced sporadic reports of damaging winds, with locally heavy rainfall atop already saturated grounds resulting in flash flooding across portions of the region as well. While the severe threat diminished by mid afternoon, flash flooding persisted through the evening hours.