EF1 tornado in Shelby County, Texas

An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds around 105 mph touched down just west of Toledo Bend Reservoir in Eastern Shelby County Texas near Forest Service Road 126 and continued northeast crossing County Road 2789 and County Road 3184 just north of Forest Service Road 126A. The tornado continued east along Forest Service Road 126 before crossing Forest Service Road 132, and eventually over Toledo Bend Reservoir into Northwest Sabine Parish Louisiana. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted along the tornado's path across the Sabine National Forest before crossing Toledo Bend Reservoir.

A strong closed upper level low pressure system advanced east across Central Texas during the evening hours of April 24th, which helped to mix a warm front north into portions of Deep East Texas and Northcentral Louisiana. As a result, warm, moist, and unstable air began to build north along and south of the front, as steepening lapse rates aloft spread east along the axis of increasing large scale forcing ahead of the low. This resulted in an increase in scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms near and south of the warm front from the late evening hours of the 24th through the early morning hours of the 25th across East Texas and North Louisiana. Coupled with the strong wind shear present across the expanding warm sector, several supercell thunderstorms developed, with one supercell spawning six separate tornadoes from San Augustine Texas northeast to Eastern Union Parish Louisiana, directly impacting the cities of San Augustine Texas and Ruston Louisiana along its 150+ mile track across the NWS Shreveport County Warning Area. In fact, this supercell spawned another tornado across Northwest Morehouse and Southern Ashley County Arkansas, to complete its nearly 180 mile track before dissipating. Additional showers and thunderstorms developed farther north of the warm front along the I-20 corridor of East Texas, with locally heavy rainfall of 3-6+ inches resulting in areas of flash flooding across Southwest and Central Smith County.