EF0 tornado in Bossier Parish, Louisiana

A brief line-embedded tornado with estimated maximum winds near 80 mph touched down along LA Hwy 154 between Elm Grove and Lake Bistineau. Damage was

extremely sporadic and consisted almost entirely of large and small limbs being downed from hardwood trees. However, a couple of larger tree trunks were split along the path. The tornado roughly moved east, crossing Fairview Point Road, then turned northeast,

crossing Evangeline Drive, Parish Camp Road, and Public Camp Road. The most consistent path of tree damage was found in the Bossier Parish Camp at Lake Bistineau. The tornado likely moved over Lake Bistineau and lifted. No consistent evidence of a

tornado damage track was located on the eastern shore of the lake. Still, sporadic tree damage from the intense bow echo was observed in Northern Bienville and Southern Webster Parishes.

An upper level low pressure system over the Desert Southwest shifted east through the Intermountain West on May 6th, inducing surface low development over West Texas. This also resulted in a tightening pressure gradient across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley, with increased southerly low level winds allowing for a warm front to shift north to the I-20 corridor of East Texas and North Louisiana before becoming stationary later in the day. A warm, moist, and unstable air mass developed during the 6th south of the front, as large scale forcing increased near and south of the front ahead of the upper trough. As a result, showers and thunderstorms, some of which became severe, developed across East Texas and North Louisiana, producing damaging winds, locally heavy rainfall, and isolated tornadoes. Given the already saturated grounds from heavy rainfall that fell only several days prior, flash flooding was also observed through the afternoon and evening.