Power Outage in Natchitoches, LA

Report of power lines downed.

Several trees downed or twisted off along with power poles and lines downed northeast of Clarence.

Tree downed on power lines along Highway 117.

A power pole was snapped and power lines were blown down over a road in the Red Dirt community.

A tree and power line were downed in the Marco community.

Numerous trees and power lines were downed across Natchitoches Parish.

Power lines were downed along Highway 117.

Numerous trees were downed along Highway 1 south of Cloutierville. Widespread power outages were reported.

The storm which produced a tornado in Northeast Sabine/Western Natchitoches Parishes continued to exhibit rotation as it crossed Interstate 49, with a new tornado touching down from the same storm as it crossed the Red River. This EF-2 tornado, with maximum estimated winds around 115 mph, touched down along the Red River just west of Highway 486 (Campti Cutoff Road), and tracked east northeast as it crossed Highway 486, Highway 71, and Maricelli Road. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted across these areas. The tornado moved over Clear Lake, and continued to track northeast across Salt Pitt Road, where two vehicle trailers were flipped, trees were snapped, and low end EF-2 damage was evident as two power poles were snapped. The tornado then moved over a heavily wooded area before crossing Saline Lake into Western Winn Parish.

Trees and power lines were downed in Natchitoches.

Trees were blown down on homes on Loren Avenue and Fifth Street. Trees were snapped or uprooted on the Northwestern State University campus at Tarlton Drive and Chaplins Lake. A large tree was blown down on a lot at St. Clair and Williams Avenue. Power lines were down on Harling Lane. Other tree damage and limbs were down across the city.

Numerous trees and power lines were downed along Highway 3191 at Monroe Road just west of the Natchitoches city limits.

Numerous trees were blown down throughout Natchitoches Parish. A tree and power lines were downed on Highway 494 past the First Church.

An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds between 100-110 mph touched down along the northern fringes of Sibley Lake along Wilkerson Road, downing large tree branches. The tornado crossed the northern fingers of the lake along Shoreline Road, Lakeside Drive, and Peninsula Drive, where numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. One home on Lakeside Drive suffered roof damage, while another home had several windows blown out and siding lost. One snapped tree crushed a tree house, while another landed on a workshop. The tornado also destroyed one dock along the lake. The tornado crossed another finger of Sibley Lake from Peninsula Drive to Monroe Street and Johnson Lane, where additional trees were snapped and uprooted, and power poles snapped. The tornado lifted along Johnson Lane before lifting as it approached the eastern most finger of the lake along Highway 1 and North Natchitoches.

An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds between 100-110 mph touched down along the northern fringes of Sibley Lake along Wilkerson Road, downing large tree branches. The tornado crossed the northern fingers of the lake along Shoreline Road, Lakeside Drive, and Peninsula Drive, where numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. One home on Lakeside Drive suffered roof damage, while another home had several windows blown out and siding lost. One snapped tree crushed a tree house, while another landed on a workshop. The tornado also destroyed one dock along the lake. The tornado crossed another finger of Sibley Lake from Peninsula Drive to Monroe Street and Johnson Lane, where additional trees were snapped and uprooted, and power poles snapped. The tornado lifted along Johnson Lane before lifting as it approached the eastern most finger of the lake along Highway 1 and North Natchitoches.

Power lines were downed on Highway 504 just east of Interstate 49 in the Oak Grove community.

Strong, damaging winds with gusts of up to 60 mph associated with a strong wake low blew a large oak tree down through a house at the corner of Shady Grove Road and Delton Masters Road. Several other trees and power lines were also blown down across Shady Grove Road.

Trees and power lines down.

Trees were downed across several roadways in the city of Natchitoches. One tree fell on a home and other trees caused powerlines to go down.

Trees and powerlines were downed at the corner of Williams and Henry Avenue in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Widespread trees and powerlines were downed throughout the entire parish. Some of these trees damaged homes and automobiles as well. Power outages were widespread.

Numerous trees and powerlines were downed on the north side of Black Lake Reservoir.

Trees and powerlines were downed throughout the parish.

Powerlines and trees were downed in the city of Natchitoches, Louisiana.

A tree was downed blocking Golddona Road. Another tree was downed along with powerlines on 8 Mile Loop.

This tornado is a continuation of the tornado that first touched down in Sabine Parish east of Florien, Louisiana. The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey in Sabine and Natchitoches Parishes, and concluded that storm damage was the result of an EF1 tornado. The tornado crossed the Sabine Parish/Natchitoches Parish line at 8:35 PM. It crossed through the Kisatchie National Forest snapping numerous trees and knocking down powerlines in a swath approximately 200 yards wide. Kisatchie Forest Rangers estimate that nearly 30-40 acres of timber was damaged or destroyed. The tornado lifted just west of Hwy. 117 prior to reaching the ranger station along Hwy. 117.

The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey in Natchitoches Parish and found evidence of an EF2 tornado. Maximum winds are estimated at 110-120 mph in the tornado. The tornado first touched down north of Flora along Hwy. 120 and headed north east snapping and uprooting trees. The tornado crossed and eventually paralleled Hwy. 478 just south of Natchitoches snapping trees and powerlines and knocking a tree into a brick home. The tornado knocked down powerlines onto Hwy. 1 and ripped up trees eastward along Lateral Road where one mobile home was moderately damaged by falling trees. The tornado weakened slightly as it crossed the Cane River and knocked over a few trees. The track continued eastward across the Red River into Winn Parish near the intersection of Hwy 71 and 477.

Several large tree limbs were downed on the 300 block of Fifth Street. Powerlines were also downed in town. Trees were also reported downed near Cloutierville, Chopin and Campti, Louisiana.

Trees and powerlines were downed across the entire parish.

Tropical storm force winds in association with Hurricane Ike was responsible for widespread tree and power line damage throughout the parish. The southern portion of the parish was the hardest hit with numerous trees and power lines downed. Power outages were widespread as well.

Tropical storm force winds and gusts resulted in numerous trees and power lines downed across the entire parish. Tree damage was widespread, especially across the southern half of the parish. Many locations were without power during the height of the storm as well. Several wind gusts to near 70 mph were reported across the parish as trees quickly fell from the wind gusts. Many parish roads were impassable from debris and fallen trees during the height of the storm. A tree fell across a vehicle in the town of Goldonna, Louisiana but no injuries were reported. Other structural damage in the Natchitoches, Louisiana included some roof damage to a business on Horn Street, St. Dennis Street and Second Street. A tree was downed on a home on North Williams Avenue and another tree was down on home on Hancock. There were up to four indirect injuries reported across the parish when cars hit trees that were already downed on area streets. |A Cooperative Weather Observer reported a barometric pressure of 29.15 inches of mercury as the center of Tropical Storm Gustav crossed the western portions of the parish.

Trees and powerlines were downed across the entire parish.

Trees were downed blocking several roads along the outskirts of the city limits including Hwy. 494. Some portions of the city were without power. Water accumulation on the roof of a local business caused the roof to collapse under the weight of the accumulated rainfall. The building was deemed beyond repair. The water flooded the entire building causing damage and soaking the carpet. The business was located on Third Street.

Multiple reports of trees and power lines downed across the parish.

Strong thunderstorm winds downed a few trees in town...one of which fell across a home and another which fell on top of a vehicle. Power lines were also cut leaving some residents without power.

Trees and powerlines were downed across the entire parish.

Numerous powerlines and trees downed throughout the parish. The entire city of Natchitoches was without power for sometime.

Trees and power lines downed.

Numerous trees and power lines downed throughout the entire parish.

During the early morning hour, Hurricane Lili made landfall along the west shore of Vermilion Bay in South Central Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane. During the day, the hurricane made steady progress northward and by 2 pm, Lili was downgraded to a tropical storm. As the storm moved into North Central Louisiana, the storm produced sustained winds of 40 mph with frequent gusts to 55 mph across most of the warned area. the strongest winds were felt near and to the east of the decaying eye wall of the tropical storm which moved through Natchitoches, grant, La Salle, Winn, Caldwell, Jackson and Ouachita Parishes. Numerous reports of downed trees and power lines were reported throughout these parishes along with a report of a brief tornado touch down in southeast Grant Parish and La Salle Parish. While the wind damage was scattered throughout these parishes, very little, if any structural damage was reported.

A squall line with a bow echo moved across the north side of Natchitoches. Several mobile homes had siding damage in the Hidden Hills mobile home park of north Natchitoches, and two were overturned by straight line winds. They were not tied down. A church and several frame homes were damaged by falling trees. In extreme NE Natchitoches in the 2000 block of Williams Rd., a mobile home was destroyed by wind, estimated by eye witness and NWS Doppler radar at 90 to 100 mph. Six people were injured in this mobile home. Numerous trees snapped and uprooted along the 4.5 mile path of the microburst and several power lines were knocked down by falling trees. All debris was blown from west to east in a fan pattern.

A strong upper level low pressure system tracked east across the Red River Valley of Southern Oklahoma and North Texas during the afternoon of January 8th, before shifting across Northeast Texas into Southwest Arkansas during the early morning hours of the 9th. Ahead of this low, strong southerly low level winds rapidly transported low level moisture back north across the region, with large scale forcing and elevated instability ahead of the low contributing to areas of showers and embedded thunderstorms over East Texas, North Louisiana, and Southwest Arkansas. Meanwhile, a warm front had spread north into portions of Deep East Texas and Central Louisiana during the late evening and early morning hours, with increasing instability and low level wind shear fueling the development of strong to severe thunderstorms over these areas. These storms produced damaging winds which downed trees and power lines, and also spawned two tornadoes in Southern Sabine Parish before gradually weakening as they shifted northeast away from the front.

Hot and humid conditions continued from the final day in August through the first several days of September, with temperatures climbing into the lower and mid 90s across North-central Louisiana. Oppressively high dewpoints in the mid 70s in wake of a warm frontal passage on August 31st shifted back north across much of East Texas and North Louisiana, which when combined with the very hot temperatures, resulted in heat indices ranging from 100-108 degrees across these areas. Due to the extensive power outages across much of North Louisiana in wake of Hurricane Laura, the NWS Shreveport Heat Advisory criteria was temporarily lowered to heat indices greater than or equal to 100 degrees for parishes where at least 10% of the parish was without power.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Laura, very hot and humid conditions lingered across Western Louisiana on August 28th, as afternoon temperatures climbed into the lower to mid 90s. Light winds and very little mixing of the air mass leftover from Laura resulted in very oppressive dewpoints in the mid and upper 70s, resulting in heat indices between 105 and 110 degrees across Western Louisiana. Even hotter temperatures were observed on the 29th through the 31st, and when combined with the oppressively humid conditions, resulted in heat indices between 100 to 110 degrees each day. Due to the extensive power outages across much of West-central Louisiana, the NWS Shreveport Heat Advisory criteria was temporarily lowered to heat indices greater than or equal to 100 degrees for parishes where at least 10% of the parish was without power in wake of Hurricane Laura.

Tropical Storm Harvey emerged back over the Northwest Gulf of Mexico during the morning hours of August 28th, and intensified slightly as drifted northwest just off the Southeast Texas coast, eventually making a 3rd landfall near Cameron, Louisiana during the early morning hours of August 30th. After Harvey made landfall in far Southwest Louisiana during the early morning hours of August 30th, the more concentrated bands of heavy rain were concentrated on the northwest side of the center, which slowly drifted northeast into Central Louisiana during the afternoon and evening hours. Thus, more significant reports of flash flooding were received across Deep East Texas and Westcentral Louisiana, before drier air had begun to wrap around the center, thus reducing rainfall rates as the center moved into Northeast Louisiana during the early morning hours of August 31st. In addition to the widespread flooding, reports of downed trees and power lines were received over portions of Deep East Texas and Northcentral Louisiana, as some of the stronger squalls produced wind gusts to 35-40 mph with locally higher gusts atop already saturated grounds.||Here are the 4 day cumulative rainfall totals across portions of Northcentral Louisiana: In Bienville Parish, Arcadia 4.09 inches. In Bossier Parish, Koran 5.35 inches, Red River Research Station 4.82 inches, 4 S Bossier City 4.59 inches, 1 SSW Bossier City 3.48 inches, 5 E Benton 2.25 inches, 8 NNW Bossier City 2.12 inches. In Caddo Parish, Shreveport Downtown Airport 2.47 inches, Shreveport Southern Hills 4.58 inches, 5 SSE Shreveport 4.99 inches, 6 S Shreveport 4.73 inches, 7 S Shreveport 4.25 inches, 6 S Barksdale Air Force Base 4.24 inches, 2 NNW Keithville 4.40 inches, Keithville 4.02 inches, Shreveport Regional Airport 3.51 inches, 4 NNW Keithville 3.31 inches, 4 SSE Shreveport 3.03 inches, 2 SW Bossier City 2.25 inches, 5 WNW Bossier City 2.02 inches. In Claiborne Parish, Homer 4.40 inches, Homer 3 SSW 3.45 inches. In DeSoto Parish, Mansfield CE Rust Airport 3.38 inches. In Grant Parish, 12 W Georgetown 6.31 inches, 3 WSW Pollock 5.50 inches, 9 E Atlanta 3.89 inches, 4 W Dry Prong 2.50 inches. In Lincoln Parish, 6 NNW Ruston 4.02 inches, 5 ENE Ruston 2.93 inches, 2 NW Choudrant 2.63 inches. In Natchitoches Parish, 10 N Kurthwood 13.01 inches, 2 N Goldonna 12.74 inches, 1 N Goldonna 11.75 inches, 1 NE Natchitoches 10.04 inches, 5 ENE Campti 9.88 inches, Natchitoches #2 8.34 inches, Midpoint 5.52 inches. In Ouachita Parish, Monroe 1.9 NNW 3.18 inches, Monroe Regional Airport 2.69 inches, 2 SW Swartz 2.34 inches, 1 SSW Swartz 2.23 inches, Monroe 3.2 SSE 2.12 inches. In Red River Parish, 1 NE Coushatta 11.93 inches, Edgefield 10.49 inches, Red River Lock and Dam #4 10.12 inches. In Sabine Parish, Bayou Toro near Toro 18.56 inches, 10 SE Pleasant Hill 15.05 inches, Peason Ridge 14.16 inches, 2 ESE Noble 13.10 inches, 6 W Robeline 12.03 inches, 1 ESE Noble 10.26 inches. In Union Parish, 7 E Marion 4.21 inches, 9 N Sterlington 4.03 inches, Little Corney Bayou near Lillie 3.36 inches. In Webster Parish, Minden 4.18 inches, 3 NNW Minden 3.36 inches, 2 NE Minden 3.35 inches. In Winn Parish, 4 S Calvin 9.37 inches, 8 SW Calvin 8.39 inches, 9 E Atlanta 3.45 inches.

Tropical Storm Harvey emerged back over the Northwest Gulf of Mexico during the morning hours of August 28th, and intensified slightly as drifted northwest just off the Southeast Texas coast, eventually making a 3rd landfall near Cameron, Louisiana during the early morning hours of August 30th. After Harvey made landfall in far Southwest Louisiana during the early morning hours of August 30th, the more concentrated bands of heavy rain and the stronger squalls were concentrated on the northwest side of the center, which slowly drifted northeast into Central Louisiana during the afternoon and evening hours. Thus, in addition to significant flash flooding across Westcentral Louisiana, reports of downed trees and power lines were received over portions of Northcentral Louisiana, as some of the stronger squalls produced wind gusts to 35-40 mph with locally higher gusts atop already saturated grounds.||In Sabine Parish, trees were blown down on power lines on LA 1215 west of LA 191 about 6 miles south southwest of Zwolle. Another tree was also blown down on Highway 120 about 4 miles north of Zwolle, where water was also high in this area. In Natchitoches Parish, a large tree was blown down across Highway 9 near Creston Baptist Church, blocking the road. In Union Parish, a large limb fell through the roof of a home about 3 miles northwest of Farmerville, causing structural damage and water to come into the home.

A very hot, humid, and unstable air mass was in place during the afternoon hours on August 11th across Northern Louisiana, with scattered showers and thunderstorms developing during the afternoon west of an upper level low pressure system over Southern Mississippi and extreme Southeast Louisiana. These showers and thunderstorms were often short-lived, with multiple outflow boundaries focusing new thunderstorm development across Northwest and Northcentral Louisiana. As a result, isolated severe thunderstorms developed over Natchitoches Parish, resulting in damaging winds downing power lines just west of the city of Natchitoches. These storms quickly diminished by the early evening hours with the loss of heating and with the stabilizing air mass.

A complex of showers and embedded thunderstorms moved across East Texas, Southwest Arkansas, and North Louisiana during the morning and afternoon hours on May 26th. As these showers and embedded thunderstorms diminished from west to east, strong, damaging winds with gusts up to 60 mph associated with a wake low over Deep East Texas moved into the southern sections of Northcentral Louisiana during the late evening and early morning hours on the 26th-27th, and downed numerous trees and power lines over Sabine and Natchitoches Parishes.

With D4 Exceptional Drought conditions ongoing across Natchitoches Parish during the middle of October, the wildfire danger was very high. A downed powerline sparked a wildfire near the Red River/Natchitoches Parish line in the vicinity of Coffee Crossing Road. The fire burned nearly 1500 acres of timberland. No structures were damaged and the fire was 100% contained as of 945 pm on October 17th.

Weak seabreeze boundary made it northward from South Central Louisiana into portions of Northwest Louisiana during the late afternoon and early evening hours of July 9th. A single thunderstorm developed south of Natchez, Louisiana, moving north and snapped powerpoles in Natchez, Louisiana.