Thunderstorm Wind — Webster, Louisiana

2025-08-20 · near Dixie Inn, Webster, Louisiana

Event narrative

Power lines downed in Dixie Inn.

Wider weather episode

A cluster of thunderstorms developed across Northern Louisiana during the afternoon on August 20th. As these thunderstorms and associated outflow boundaries moved south, they encountered increasing instability with temperatures in the upper 90s and dewpoints in the mid 70s, yielding 2500 J/kg MLCAPE. Despite the rather favorable thermodynamic environment, shear was quite weak. This weak shear resulted in very unorganized storms with strong outflows. Stronger cores supported the threat for microbursts, particularly where boundary collisions occurred. As a result, several thunderstorms became severe and produced damaging wind gusts along with an isolated occurrence of flash flooding.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1290565. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.