Hail in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana

Baseball size hail reported along Highway 534 southwest of Homer.

Numerous supercell thunderstorms developed late in the evening on April 25th into the early morning hours on April 26th along a warm front extending from southern Oklahoma into western Arkansas, well ahead of an advancing cold front and dry line upstream over the Texas/Oklahoma panhandles. The environment farther downstream across Northeast Texas, Southwest Arkansas, and extreme North Louisiana was very unstable and strongly sheared. This environment favored a continuation of severe thunderstorms and the potential for new supercell development. Nocturnal low-level cooling and capping were increasing, which generally kept the primary threat as large hail. However, given the persistent low-level shear, any surface-based thunderstorms also had the potential to produce some isolated damaging wind gusts. As a result, numerous reports of large and even very large hail were documented across parts of extreme North Louisiana in addition to isolated damaging wind gusts.