Power Outage in Longview, TX

Tree downed on a house on Jewel Drive and power poles leaning along West Loop 281.

Numerous trees and power lines were blown down onto mobile homes and along/across West Fairlane Drive near Pine Tree Road.

Widespread wind damage was common across the city of Longview, with numerous trees down, and some of which were on homes, vehicles, and power lines.

Trees and power lines were downed in several locations across Northwest Longview, including the 100 block of Tracy Lynn Street.

Widespread flooding was reported throughout the city of Kilgore in southern Gregg County. High water from Turkey Creek forced the evacuation of homes along Sceyne Road, Horseshoe Street, and Dwain Street. Trees and power lines were downed throughout the city.

Widespread flooding was reported throughout the city of Kilgore in southern Gregg County. High water from Turkey Creek forced the evacuation of homes along Sceyne Road, Horseshoe Street, and Dwain Street. Trees and power lines were downed throughout the city.

Trees and powerlines were downed throughout the county.

Numerous trees and powerlines downed throughout the county. Widespread power outages as well.

A large tree was downed on the corner of a home on Fenton Road, northwest of Longview, Texas. Several other areas were dealing with downed powerlines as well.

Powerlines were snapped and a few shingles were removed from several homes in the neighborhood.

Powerlines were downed on Eastman Road and Hawkins Parkway.

Powerlines were downed in Judson, Texas.

A power pole was broken in the eastern portion of town.

Numerous trees and powerlines were downed across the city of Longview. Power outages were also noted at several locations in the city.

Multiple trees and powerlines were downed across town.

Powerlines were blown down at Texas Highway 31 and the 281 Loop.

The remnants of Hurricane Ike resulted in Tropical Storm force wind gusts being reported at the Gregg County Airport. The airport reported a 56 mph wind gust before the ASOS equipment lost power. Numerous trees and power lines were downed across the county with power outages widespread as well. One tree was downed on a home in Gladewater, Texas. No injuries were reported. The wind blew the siding off the old Wiseman Furniture building on the corner of Gay and Hwy. 271 along with all the windows blown out causing significant water damage inside the building. In Longview, Texas alone, over 82 power poles were broken along with 50 blown transformers and 113 downed electrical wires.|On Willow Oak Road in Longview, Texas, a 100 foot tall oak tree fell across two vehicles with another tree on top of a home in town.

Numerous trees and power lines were downed throughout the county from non-thunderstorm wind gusts. Approximately 1700 customers were without power during the height of the outage period.

Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. A few trees fell on top of homes in town. One injury was reported when a tree fell on a home trapping the person inside.

Trees and power lines were downed across the northern portion of the county.

Roofs were damaged by winds at the Bobo Lumber Yard. Some trees were also downed on powerlines along Hwy 31.

Power lines were downed along Hwy 300.

Trees and power lines downed on the north side of town.

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 widespread freezing rain. Ice accumulations on average of one inch were common north and west of a line from Mansfield and Arcadia to Farmerville LA. An estimated 235,000 residents lost power from snapped power lines. Upwards of 29 transmission lines atop "H" shaped steel towers were snapped due to the weight of the ice. One man was killed and another injured when a tree limb laden with ice fell on them. Numerous traffic accidents were reported from ice covered roads and bridges. In the Shreveport - Bossier metroplex more than 205 streets were either blocked or partially blocked by limbs and fallen trees. Much of northwest Louisiana was declared a disaster area.

Power lines down across the city.

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.

An inverted upper trough extending from Central Louisiana into Deep East Texas became absorbed into a weak shear axis across Northeast Louisiana and East Texas on August 5th. These upper level features tapped into a very hot, moist, and unstable air mass with the aid of diurnal heating, with widely scattered showers and thunderstorms developing across East Texas and North Louisiana. Given the elevated nature of these storms, damaging downbursts resulted across the cities of Longview and Mount Pleasant, resulting in numerous trees and power lines downed with some damage to buildings before the storms diminished during the evening.

Numerous showers and thunderstorms developed during the afternoon of May 24th, as an upper level disturbance rotated north across East-Central Texas, ahead of a large upper level trough of low pressure slowly drifting east over much of the Rockies. Moderate instability developed during the afternoon is response to diurnal heating and a very moist air mass in place, such that some of these storms became severe, producing hail and multiple reports of damaging winds which downed trees and power lines across East Texas, Northwest Louisiana, and Southeast Oklahoma. These storms eventually weakened by early evening as the air mass stabilized in response to the more widespread rain cooled air.

A weakening complex of showers and thunderstorms entered portions of Northeast Texas during the pre-dawn hours of June 19th, but a strong southwesterly low level jet feeding into these storms interacted with adequate instability still in place for these storms to re-intensify over portions of East Texas, such that they became severe producing damaging winds that downed trees and power lines, which eventually spread into portions of Northwest Louisiana before weakening again shortly after daybreak. These storms also spawned a brief, weak tornado over Harrison County just northwest of the Nesbitt community. ||This complex of thunderstorms left behind a surface boundary which lifted north across Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma, and Southwest Arkansas ahead of an approaching upper level shortwave trough. Strong heating near this surface boundary resulted in the development of moderate instability, with large scale forcing ahead of the approaching trough contributing to the development of a second round of severe thunderstorms during the late afternoon through the evening hours across East Texas. The storms produced damaging winds and large hail, with localized flash flooding in Northeast Wood County before finally weakening during the early morning hours of June 20th.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed during the afternoon of July 3rd, as an upper level low pressure area and its associated trough of low pressure, drifted west across much of Louisiana and Southern Arkansas, before entering East Texas late in the day. Temperatures climbed into the upper 90s to in excess of 100 degrees by early afternoon once these showers and thunderstorms developed, further enhancing instability and allowing some of these storms to become severe as they interacted with other storms across portions of extreme Southwest Arkansas and East Texas. These storms produced several damaging downbursts which downed trees and power lines across portions of East Texas, as they spread west throughout the late afternoon hours. These storms eventually moved out of the area and weakened during the evening.

Overnight showers and thunderstorms which held together into the morning hours of Sunday May 28th, moved into Northern Louisiana from the northwest during the morning hours after daybreak. These storms mostly dissipated by midday, leaving numerous outflow boundaries across the area. Meanwhile, a warm front moving northward into the area resulted in dew points quickly rising from the mid 60s to the mid 70s with its passage. This front stalled out near the Interstate 30 corridor of Northeast Texas, and south of this boundary, scattered thunderstorms quickly developed by mid-afternoon and spread east across East Texas near and south of the Interstate 20 corridor. These storms rapidly intensified during peak afternoon heating and instability, and produced numerous reports of wind damage across extreme Eastern Texas and even two short EF-1 tornadoes near and east of Longview. Training storms moving west to east also producing brief flash flooding at some locations. In the storms' wake, over 103,000 customers were left without power across East Texas and Western Louisiana in the AEP SWEPCO coverage area, which was the 4th worst storm (with outages) in the company's 105 year history.

Isolated severe thunderstorms developed over East Texas during the afternoon of July 15th, as strong heating and instability developed ahead of an upper level disturbance that developed from strong to severe thunderstorms as they moved through the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex earlier in the morning. These storms tracked east across Wood, Upshur, Gregg, Marion, and Harrison Counties, intensifying as they moved just east of Gilmer to the north side of Longview and across much of Harrison County, with numerous reports of downed trees and power lines across these areas. Even an isolated large hail report was received on the north side of Longview. These severe thunderstorms then moved into extreme Northwest Louisiana, affecting the northern suburbs of Shreveport and Bossier City before weakening. Additional severe thunderstorms developed on the backside of the upper level disturbance along the Texas/Louisiana line near Waskom and tracked southeast, where numerous reports of downed trees and power lines were also received as 60+ mph winds blew through across South Shreveport. These storms weakened by mid and late evening southeast of Shreveport with the loss of heating and instability.

Widespread showers and thunderstorms continued into the predawn and early morning hours of July 17th across northeast Texas. Some of these storms were able to tap a low level jet which developed during the overnight hours and produced very heavy rainfall rates. A few of these storms also reached severe limits and downed trees and powerlines.

A strong upper level shortwave moved eastward across Oklahoma and Arkansas during the late evening and overnight hours of May 7th. A storm environment consisted of moderate instability but very strong shear present in the lower and mid levels of the atmosphere. A dry line moved just east of the Interstate 35 corridor of north central Texas before stalling out. Supercells developed along the dryline across central Texas...moving northeast into northeast Texas and merged with a pre-frontal trough which set up across northeast Texas into southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas. The result was severe thunderstorms across mainly the southern half of northeast Texas...and much of northwest and north central Louisiana. Storms contained strong and damaging wind gusts which downed numerous trees and power lines.

Strong low level winds nearing 60 knots at approximately four thousand feet in the atmosphere mixed down to the surface during the afternoon of March 18th. These winds, not associated with thunderstorms, resulted in widespread trees and power lines down across portions of northeast Texas as well as northwest Louisiana during the afternoon of the March 18th.

Scattered severe thunderstorms developed across portions of East Texas during the mid/late afternoon hours of the 27th, producing a large swath of tree, power line, and structural damage. These storms developed well ahead of a cold front that extended from southern and eastern Oklahoma, into central Arkansas, but mainly along a differential moisture boundary that moved south across east Texas, extreme southern Arkansas, and north Louisiana. Strong surface instability, and gust fronts that developed from these storms, focused new shower and thunderstorm development, with several of these storms becoming severe. One longer lived severe thunderstorm developed over eastern Upshur County, then merged with another southward moving band of strong thunderstorms, producing widespread wind damage across eastern Upshur, much of Gregg, and northern Rusk County. The cities of Longview and Kilgore were hit hardest, with numerous trees blown down/uprooted, power lines downed, and trees falling onto homes, with at least one known injury reported. A 53-yr old man was killed on the north side of Longview when lightning struck a tree he was standing near in wake of the storm.