Thunderstorm Wind — Gregg, Texas

2018-03-11 · near Tenneryville, Gregg, Texas

Event narrative

A large oak tree was uprooted and fell on a mobile home at the Flamingo Mobile Home Park in Northwest Longview. The tree crushed much of the mobile home, killing a 41 year old male inside. His 12 year old son was also inside, but was uninjured.

Wider weather episode

A warm front lifted north into Eastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas during the daytime hours on March 10th, spreading, warmer, humid, and unstable air north across the region. A shortwave trough traversing the Southern Plains during the late afternoon through the overnight hours reinforced a cold front south into Northeast Texas and Southwest Arkansas during the late evening. Steep mid level lapse rates and moderate surface instability was present within a moderately sheared air mass, resulting in numerous severe thunderstorms developing along and just ahead of the front from late evening on the 10th, through the early morning hours on March 11th. Numerous reports of large hail and damage winds were received across much of Northeast Texas, before the storms weakened just prior to daybreak.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 738767. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.