Thunderstorm Wind — Rusk, Texas

2011-06-28 · near Henderson, Rusk, Texas

Event narrative

An 83 year old man was traveling northbound on FM. 225, a half mile north of CR. 438 when his vehicle struck a downed tree. He was taken to a local hospital where he later died of his injuries.

Wider weather episode

With afternoon temperatures near 100 degrees, the atmosphere became very unstable across all of southeast Oklahoma and Northeast Texas during the afternoon and evening of June 28th. A weak stationary front was located across southern Arkansas into southern Oklahoma late in the day. A complex of thunderstorms produced an outflow boundary earlier in the day that migrated westward and the boundary bisected the stationary front. Storms initiated at this intersection late in the day with thunderstorms quickly becoming severe producing large hail and damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. The storms propagated southward along a strong instability axis which extended into Northeast Texas.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 306637. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.