Thunderstorm Wind in Sabine County, Texas

Tree downed on Highway 21 near Cedar Grove Road.

Upper-level ridging was anchored across the Mid-Atlantic region on June 24th with the ridge axis extending west southwest through the Tennessee Valley and across the Ozarks of Western Arkansas. The weakness in this ridging was located along the southwest flank where some upper-level forcing was present across much of the Ark-La-Tex region. Very strong daytime heating and plentiful moisture with precipitable water values in excess of 1.5 inches, combined to produce scattered strong to isolated severe convection across parts of East Texas and North Louisiana during the afternoon hours on June 24th. As a result, several damaging wind reports were recorded with downed trees reported across Sabine County.