Power Outage in Clarksville, TX

Tree downed onto a power line on South Cedar Street in Clarksville.

Trees downed along with power lines and some structural damage along Highway 82.

Multiple trees and power lines were downed on FM 412 and County Road 4222.

Numerous trees and power lines were downed across Red River County.

Several trees were uprooted, power lines were downed, and barn roofs were damaged on FM 195 near the Addielou community.

A power line was downed at County Road 1370 and Farm to Market Road 910.

Multiple large trees and power lines were downed along Highway 37 north of Clarksville, all of which were facing east.

Trees and powerlines were downed throughout the county.

Powerlines were downed by severe thunderstorm wind gusts in Clarksville, Texas.

Several reports of trees and powerlines downed throughout Red River County.

Trees and powerlines were downed in Boxelder, Texas.

The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey in Red River County, Texas, and concluded that storm damage was the result of an EF1 tornado. The tornado touched down at around 515 pm CST, approximately 8 miles west of Clarksville, Texas, along U.S. Hwy. 82 where it knocked down several small trees. The tornado tracked east-northeast crossing CR 2123 where it damaged several trees. It then crossed CR 2161 northwest of Clarksville damaging trees along the road. The damage up to CR 2161 was all EF0. Once the tornado reached the north side of Clarksville, it intensified and widened to its widest point. The tornado crossed through a neighborhood north of Clarksville on the west side of Hwy. 37 where approximately a dozen homes sustained minor damage to their roofs, awnings, or carports. Numerous trees were snapped or damaged as well. Just north of the neighborhood at a business, a FEMA trailer was completely destroyed with insulation and pieces of the trailer strewn northeast and east. On the east side of Hwy. 37, numerous powerpoles were snapped, a semi tractor trailer was overturned onto a small pickup, and a home sustained moderate damage to the roof. The tornado continued east-northeast crossing FM 1159 and CR 1700. The tornado continued east, north of CR 1700, damaging trees before lifting east of CR 3202. The tornado was on the ground for nearly 11 miles and a total of approximately 20 minutes. Maximum winds were estimated at 80-90 mph. The maximum width of the tornado was 225 yards wide.

Sheriffs office reports power lines and trees down throughout the county.

Numerous trees and powerlines downed in town.

Power lines were blown down.

Power lines were blown down.

Numerous trees and power lines downed throughout the county.

Power lines were toppled by the high winds.

Highway signs with tip overs designed for 60 mph blown over as well as power lines and power poles blown down.

After trying to recover from an ice storm earlier in the month, another even more devastating ice storm struck the northern third of northeast Texas. Freezing rain resulted in ice accumulations ranging from 1/4 to 3 inches which devastated the middle Red River Valley counties of northeast Texas. Tens of thousands of trees and numerous power lines were either broken or felled from the weight of the ice leaving vast regions of northeast Texas without power for weeks. Bowie, Cass and Red River counties were declared disaster areas.

An artic airmass spilled southward out of the central plains and into the lower Mississippi Valley. This cold surface airmass was overrun by a warm and humid airmass which combined with a strong upper level storm system across west Texas. The result was a mixture of freezing rain, sleet and snow north of a Quitman to Linden Texas line, while further south, precipitation was in the form of freezing rain. Ice accumulations of two to 6 inches were common across the northern third of northeast Texas with accumulations on one to two inches further south. Over 235,000 people were without power from several hours to several weeks from snapped power lines. Upwards of 29 transmission lines atop "H" shaped steel towers were snapped due to the weight of the ice. Numerous traffic accidents were reported from ice covered roads and bridges. Northeast Texas was declared a disaster area.

Power poles snapped along Hwy 37N.

A strong upper level trough moved out of the southern Great Basin and into the lower Mississippi Valley sweeping Artic Air southward to the Gulf Coast. Moisture laden air from the Gulf overran the freezing surface temperatures producing ice across the northern half of northeast Texas. Ice accumulations of one to four inches fell across most of the area with the ice and snow accumulations near 8 inches. Thousands of homes were left without power due to ice covered tree limbs falling and snapping powerlines. Also, hundreds of chicken houses were destroyed and several 7 million chicks were killed. Barns, carports, and weak structure homes suffered collapse from the weight of the ice and snow. Traffic accidents were numerous and I-30 west of Texarkana had to be shut down when the freeway became impassable.

A weak cool front drifted south into portions of North Texas, extreme Southeast Oklahoma, and Western Arkansas during the late afternoon through the evening hours on June 11th. Weak perturbations in the northwest flow aloft enhanced large scale forcing aloft near the front, with surface convergence within a very unstable air mass along the boundary contributing to the development of widely scattered severe thunderstorms across Red River County Texas into Southern McCurtain County Oklahoma and Little River County Arkansas. These storms produced large hail over Southern McCurtain County, and damaging winds which downed a power line in Bogata in Southwest Red River County before weakening by midnight.

A shallow but very cold artic airmass spilled southward into the Southern Plains into the Lower Mississippi Valley. This airmass resulted in surface temperatures hovering near to slightly below freezing across portions of northeast Texas. A warm...moist airmass overran this shallow, colder air near the surface with light rain developing across the county. The light rain became freezing rain across portions of the region with ice accumulations below one quarter of an inch reported. The ice collected on trees and power lines as well as elevated bridges and overpasses. There were no power disruptions but a few minor accidents were reported across portions of northeast Texas.

An inverted trough extended from the surface low pressure system south of Wichita Falls, Texas and reached to the northeast through southeast Oklahoma and central Arkansas while a nearly stationary frontal boundary extended from west Texas through the surface low over northwest Texas and into northeast Oklahoma and north Arkansas. Storms developed out ahead of the activity up north into southwest Arkansas and the band between the trough of low pressure and the stationary boundary pushed south. The storms produced strong wind which downed trees and power lines.