EF1 tornado in Rusk County, Texas

An EF1 tornado with estimated maximum winds around 110 mph touched down about 1 mile west of Mount Enterprise where it uprooted trees in an open field southwest of town. The tornado then tracked northeast into the Mount Enterprise where it caused shingle damage on several single family homes. One home had its roof mostly removed near the intersection of Highway 84 and West 5th Street, while also damaging a church steeple as it crossed Highway 84. Multiple trees were snapped and uprooted and additional homes suffered shingle damage as the tornado tore through the northeast side of Mount Enterprise. The tornado continued northeast as it crossed County Roads 3195 and 3185, before moving into a heavily wooded area east of County Road 3122 in extreme Southeast Rusk County, snapping and uprooting numerous trees, before crossing over into Southwest Panola County and intensifying into an EF2 tornado just southwest of Lake Murvaul.

A longwave trough shifted east out of the Rockies and into the Central and Southern Plains during the day on March 27th, with the southwest flow ahead of the trough ejecting a series of upper level disturbances northeast across Northeast Texas, Southwest Arkansas, and Northwest Louisiana during the afternoon and evening. Meanwhile, a broad warm and moist sector had spread north across all of the Ark-La-Tex into Eastern Oklahoma and much of Arkansas ahead of this trough, with temperatures warming into the upper 70s and lower 80s areawide. This resulted in moderate instability developing as large scale forcing increased during the late afternoon through the evening hours, resulting in scattered to numerous shower and thunderstorm development across much of these areas. Increasing wind shear late in the afternoon also promoted the development of scattered severe thunderstorms over East Texas, Southwest Arkansas, and Northwest Louisiana, with various reports of damaging winds and large hail received. However, one lone supercell developed over Eastern Anderson County Texas, which produced multiple tornadoes along its track from Cherokee County northeast into Northwest Nacogdoches, Southern Rusk, and Southern Panola Counties, before eventually moving into Northern Desoto and Southeast Caddo Parishes in Northwest Louisiana. These storms eventually organized along a broken line as it pushed into North Louisiana, ahead of a cold front that shifted southeast into the area during the early morning hours of the 28th.