Thunderstorm Wind in Red River County, Texas

Large tree limbs downed and resulted in power outages in the town of Bogata.

Strong to severe thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and through the evening on April 24th as a cold front advanced from Southeast Oklahoma into the Ark-La-Tex. Intersecting this front was an outflow boundary, which moved west southwest out of Arkansas toward Northeast Texas and Northern Louisiana. This same boundary was slow in advancing and showed signs of stalling across Southeast Oklahoma just ahead of the cold front. Low-level shear in this area was sufficient to support strong updrafts with 0-1 km storm-relative helicity (SRH) over 100 m2/s2. The air mass was very moist and unstable with deep-layer shear around 50 knots, further aiding storm longevity. As a result, numerous severe thunderstorms developed across Northeast Texas during the evening with reports of widespread damaging wind gusts along with a handful of large hail reports.