Power Outage in Tyler, TX

Trees and power lines were downed in the areas of County Road 2138, 2166, and 2169 just east of Troup.

Numerous trees and power lines downed across parts of Smith County.

Tree limbs down and power reported out east of Whitehouse.

Widespread downed trees, power lines, and power poles reported throughout the city of Tyler.

Trees and power lines reported down.

Trees and power lines were blown down southeast of Winona.

Trees and power lines were downed just southwest of Lindale.

Large tree limbs were downed in Mid-Town Tyler. Power was also out to the area.

Trees and power lines were downed near the intersection of Old Troup Road and Calloway Road.

Trees and power lines were downed across Northern Smith County.

A tree fell onto a power line at the 11600 block of County Road 246 South.

Power lines were downed at 15307 of County Road 498 just east of Lindale.

Trees and power lines were blown down at the intersection of FM 3271 and Reno Road.

Numerous trees and power lines were downed throughout Tyler.

Trees, power lines, and power poles were blown down along Farm to Market Road 16 east of County Road 479.

A number of trees were blown down across several roads throughout Smith County. Power lines were downed as well, resulting in power outages especially in the Lindale and Tyler areas.

Power poles down and partially covering the roadway at Farm to Market Road 344 and Highway 110.

Powerlines were downed along Hwy. 155 near FM 344 and FM 2661.

Trees and powerlines were downed throughout the county.

Numerous trees and powerlines were downed west southwest of Hawkins, Texas.

Powerlines were downed on County Road 419 in Tyler, Texas. A tree was also downed near that location.

Lightning stuck a powerline and caused a small fire approximately 2 miles south of Lindale, Texas.

Sheriff's Office reported numerous trees downed throughout Smith County. Numerous powerlines were downed as well.

Trees and powerlines were downed at the intersections of Englewood and Dobbs as well as Carlyle and Franklin.

Trees and powerlines were downed in Hideaway Lake community.

Trees and powerlines were downed along Hwy. 110 just northwest of Tyler, Texas.

Several trees and powerlines were downed in Tyler, Texas. Trees and powerlines were also downed just north of town on FM. 14.

Powerlines were downed at Golden Road Park.

Powerlines were downed on Lavender Road in Tyler, Texas.

Two people driving an automobile got out of a truck when the vehicle drove over power lines that were downed from earlier in the evening. The two adults were electrocuted when the exited the burning vehicle.

Tropical storm force winds resulted in numerous trees and power lines downed throughout the county. Trees were reported down on Rhones Quarter Road between the towns of Whitehouse and Tyler, Texas. Power outages were widespread as well resulting from all the downed trees and trees across power lines. Some roads across the county were impassable. A tree was downed on a home on Glenview Avenue near the University of Tyler Texas Campus. One occupant was reported trapped inside and had minor injuries. At one point in time...over 100 roads were blocked by fallen trees in the city of Tyler, Texas alone. Several homes were destroyed and several more heavily damaged as trees fell across the county. One tree injured a person in a car as well. 12 homes were reported damaged by trees with 2 being destroyed and one commercial building destroyed in Troup, Texas. Another tree destroyed a mobile home on Farm to Market Road 344 in Smith County. There were 58 locations across the county where power lines were downed. In Lindale, Texas, a tree fell across a mobile home crushing the roof and damaging much of the contents inside. Another tree fell across a home on FM. 16 east of Lindale.

Trees and powerlines were downed in town on County Road 3013. A tree was also down on a home in Tyler, Texas on the 600 block of Chilton.

Lightning destroyed a power pole and knocked down power lines at the 2900 block of Robertson Road.

Half a dozen trees were reported down across different portions of the county resulting in numerous power outages.

Trees and power lines were downed near the 500 block of Fannin Street. Trees were also down on Broadway Avenue.

Trees and powerlines down. One tree fell across a home near Tyler. He was not home at the time of the incident.

Numerous trees and powerlines downed.

Winds downed trees and power lines along CR 2493 between Flint and Gresham.

Trees and power lines downed throughout the county.

Tress and power lines toppled.

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.

Trees and power lines down along Hwy 271.

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.

Very hot and moist low-level southerly winds became enhanced along and ahead of a stalled frontal boundary draped near to just north of the Interstate 20 corridor of East Texas and North Louisiana. An upper level ridge of high pressure also expanded northeast from Mexico across much of Texas. As a result, afternoon temperatures climbed into the mid to upper 90s over these areas. When combined with the high humidity, heat indices ranged from 110-119 degrees from the June 17th through the 20th. A 35 year-old male from West Virginia, who worked as a lineman for Appalachian Power, succumbed from heat stroke in Marshall around 830 pm on June 19th after helping to restore power from the severe thunderstorms that moved through the region on June 16th.

A deep southwesterly flow aloft prevailed across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley on January 30th-February 2nd, ahead of a strong upper level low pressure system that drifted through Southern California, the Desert Southwest into Northern Mexico. Meanwhile, a strong but shallow arctic cold front shifted south through the Southern Plains on the January 29th-30th, before slowing significantly in the higher terrain of the Ouachitas of Southeast Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. Weak upper level disturbances embedded in this flow ahead of the low resulted in widespread sleet and freezing rain across much of the Southern Plains given the warm air above this shallow, freezing air mass, with areas of light freezing rain affecting portions of East Texas, extreme Southeast Oklahoma, and Southwest Arkansas from January 30th-February 2nd. Ice accumulations near or in excess of one-quarter inch was observed across the western sections of East Texas as well as Hempstead and Nevada Counties in Southwest Arkansas, with ice accretion of 0.25-0.50 inches noted on trees and power lines, as well as significant icing on bridges and overpasses. ||The following are freezing rain reports across various counties in East Texas:||Red River County: Detroit: 0.40 inches, Bogota: 0.25 inches.|Franklin County: Mount Vernon: 0.25 inches.|Wood County: Lake Fork: 0.25 inches.|Smith County: 7SE Lindale: 0.25 inches, 2S Tyler: 0.20 inches, 3SE Noonday: 0.10 inches.

A deep southwesterly flow aloft prevailed across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley on January 30th-31st, ahead of a strong upper level low pressure system that drifted through Southern California, the Desert Southwest into Northern Mexico. Meanwhile, a strong but shallow arctic cold front shifted south through the Southern Plains on the 29th-30th, before slowing significantly in the higher terrain of the Ouachitas of Southeast Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. Weak upper level disturbances embedded in this flow ahead of the low resulted in widespread sleet and freezing rain across much of the Southern Plains given the warm air above this shallow, freezing air mass, with areas of light freezing rain affecting portions of East Texas, extreme Southeast Oklahoma, and Southwest Arkansas on the 30th-31st. Ice accumulations near or in excess of one-quarter inch was observed across the western sections of East Texas as well as Hempstead and Nevada Counties in Southwest Arkansas, with ice accretion of 0.25-0.50 inches noted on trees and power lines, as well as significant icing on bridges and overpasses. This extended duration of freezing rain persisted into the first couple days of February across these areas.||The following are freezing rain reports across various counties in East Texas:||Red River County: Detroit: 0.40 inches, Bogota: 0.25 inches.|Franklin County: Mount Vernon: 0.25 inches.|Wood County: Lake Fork: 0.25 inches.|Smith County: 7SE Lindale: 0.25 inches, 2S Tyler: 0.20 inches, 3SE Noonday: 0.10 inches.

A large and amplifying upper trough dug south through the eastern two-thirds of the United States along and east of the Rockies on December 22nd, which ushered in the coldest temperatures for December in decades to much of the country leading up to the Christmas Day holiday weekend. This very cold arctic air mass moved into extreme Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas, and Northeast Texas during the morning hours of the 22nd, with temperatures falling sharply some 20-30+ degrees with the attendant cold frontal passage into the single digits and lower teens by the morning hours of the 23rd. Very strong and gusty northwest winds of 35-45 mph were observed behind the front even through the morning of the 24th, producing a long duration of wind chill values ranging from 0 to as low as -13 degrees across Northeast Texas from the afternoon of the 22nd to the morning of the 24th. While the temperatures associated with this arctic air mass were not quite record-breaking for this time of year, the long duration of subfreezing temperatures, which persisted nearly 2 days, resulted in multiple reports of freezing and bursting of water pipes, as well as sporadic power outages across these areas.||Here are the lowest wind chill values recorded across Northeast Texas from December 22nd through the morning of the 24th:||Red River County: Clarksville, -11 degrees|Bowie County: Texarkana, -12 degrees; De Kalb, -6 degrees; Wake Village, -6 degrees; Redwater, -5 degrees; 3 NNW Nash, -2 degrees. |Cass County: 1 ENE Atlanta, -13 degrees, Atlanta Hall-Miller Municipal Airport, -9 degrees; Linden, -5 degrees. |Morris County: Old Country Acres, -10 degrees. |Titus County: Mount Pleasant, -12 degrees.|Camp County: Pittsburg, -11 degrees.|Wood County: Mineola/Quitman, -8 degrees; 7E Mineola, 0 degrees. |Upshur County: Gilmer Municipal Airport, -7 degrees.|Harrison County: Marshall, -9 degrees. |Gregg County: Longview East TX Regional Airport, -8 degrees; Warren City, -8 degrees; Longview, 0 degrees. |Smith County: Whitehouse, -10 degrees; Tyler Pounds Field Airport, -8 degrees; 2 W Tyler, -7 degrees; Arp, -7 degrees; Flint, -7 degrees; Bullard, -2 degrees; 4 NE Van, -1 degrees; 2 ESE Tyler, 0 degrees; Tyler, 0 degrees.

A strong but shallow cold front drifted south through Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas, and Northeast Texas during the afternoon and evening hours of February 22nd, with temperatures plummeting to near and below freezing by the early morning hours of the 23rd. A deep, moist southwest flow aloft was in place across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley during the 22nd-23rd, with embedded impulses in the flow enhancing large scale forcing such that areas of freezing rain mixed with brief periods of sleet fell across much of Northern and Northeast Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Damming of the colder, subfreezing air from the Ouachitas of Southeast Oklahoma and Western Arkansas slowed the progression of the transition of the mixed wintry precipitation, such that only McCurtain County Oklahoma, the western sections of East Texas, and the northern sections of Southwest Arkansas observed only minor impacts of the ice accumulations. In these areas, minor ice accumulations occurred on elevated objects such as trees and power lines, with some icing observed on bridges and elevated road surfaces.||The following are ice accumulations and impacts across various counties in Northeast Texas: ||In Red River County, 0.02 inches of ice was estimated with icing of bridges and some roadways were reported across the central and western sections of the county, including Clarksville and Bogata. |In Franklin County, 0.02 inches of ice was estimated with bridges and overpasses along I-30 in Mount Vernon covered in ice. |In Titus County, 0.02 inches of ice was estimated with ice covering portions of I-30 at Mile Marker 158 three miles east of Winfield. This resulted in a vehicle losing control and rolling over. Fortunately, no injures or fatalities were reported. |In Wood County, a glaze of ice was reported with several bridges along Highway 69 south of Mineola covered in ice. |In Smith County, a glaze of ice was reported with the Loop 49 bridge over FM 2493 closed due to icing. In addition, bridges and overpasses on I-20 from Highway 69 west to the Van Zandt County line were covered in ice.

A strong gradient wind event behind a departing surface low pressure area over Northern Arkansas and Southern Missouri resulted in strong northwesterly surface winds across much of East Texas and Western Louisiana during the day on October 28th. The highest wind speeds were observed in East Texas where multiple sites measured peak winds between 45 and 55 mph. The highest wind speed recorded was a gust to 58 mph at the Nacogdoches Airport. Frequent wind gusts of this magnitude downed numerous trees, power lines, and large limbs, with some structural damage noted. In addition, these wind gusts combined with abnormally low relative humidities between 25-35% created an enhanced fire danger atop continued dry grounds given the ongoing moderate drought, with numerous wildfires breaking out across much of East Texas. ||The following are peak wind gusts (45 mph or greater) recorded at various observation stations across East Texas:||Angelina County: |Lufkin Angelina County Airport: 47 mph at 215 pm ||Cherokee County: |Jacksonville: 49 mph at 115 PM ||Gregg County:|East Texas Regional Airport: 55 mph at 307 pm ||Nacogdoches County: |Nacogdoches Airport: 58 mph at 1245 pm |Lumberjack RAWS: 45 mph at 246 pm ||Panola County: |Lake Murvaul: 49 mph at 105 pm |Carthage: 45 mph at 220 pm ||Rusk County: |Lake Striker: 57 mph at 310 pm |Henderson: 48 mph at 406 pm |3 WSW Henderson: 46 mph at 206 pm ||Smith County: |Tyler Pounds Field Airport: 51 mph at 1159 am ||Titus County: |Mount Pleasant Airport: 47 mph at 155 pm ||Upshur County: |Gilmer Municipal Airport: 55 mph at 135 pm ||Specifically, an 11 year old boy was killed 5 miles south-southwest of Lindale in Smith County when a tree was downed by high winds and landed on him as he was riding a go-kart on the back part of a property. In addition, trees and/or large limbs were downed on the following county roads in Smith County: 1131, 1134, 121, 178, 210, 2167, 219, 2199, 262, 287, 3203, 356, 373, 374, 378, 384, 4100, 411, 4131, 422, 431, 447, 470, and 486. Power lines were also downed in the 2900 block of Highway 64 West in Tyler, forcing the closure of the roadway. ||In Gregg County, these strong wind gusts completely blew the sheet metal roof off of a building on South Main Street in Downtown Gladewater, forcing the closure of the roadway. A power pole and lines were also downed on Hawkins Parkway in Longview. ||In Rusk County, a large oak tree was blown down blocking a portion of Highway 259 near the intersection of of Highway 42 South. The high winds also helped fuel the spread of a large fire at Kilgore Recycling along the Gregg/Rusk County line. This fire created a massive toxic smoke plume across the southern half of the city, forcing an evacuation of residents within a half mile area of the recycling plant, and a Shelter-in-Place order to go into effect for some area residents. A middle school football game was also cancelled.

A closed upper low pressure system continued to spin across New Mexico during the afternoon and evening of May 18th, ejecting a shortwave trough northeast across Northeast Texas into Southeast Oklahoma. A very moist and unstable air mass had developed during the afternoon over these areas, with the trough enhancing large scale forcing for a complex of showers and thunderstorms which shifted northeast across Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma, and Southwest Arkansas. Given the extent of instability and adequate wind shear, some of these storms became severe, producing damaging winds which downed trees and power lines across portions of Western Bowie County into Southeast McCurtain County Oklahoma. These storms weakened during the early evening, before dissipating by mid-evening. ||Another shortwave trough ejecting northeast across Central and Southeast Texas ahead of the trough promoted the development of another mesoscale convective system across these areas during the evening, which shifted east northeast across Southeast Texas and portions of East Texas. While the northern extent of this system weakened over East Texas due to a more stable air mass in place from the earlier thunderstorms which moved through the area during the afternoon, locally heavy rain did fall over already saturated grounds, with rainfall amounts of two to four inches falling over Smith, Cherokee, Western and Southern Nacogdoches, and Angelina Counties, with isolated higher amounts between five and six inches falling over Southwest Smith County near Lake Palestine. This heavy rainfall resulted in rapid runoff and flash flooding across much of these areas during the late evening through the early morning hours of May 19th. The heavy rainfall and flash flooding ended by daybreak across much of East Texas.

A strong closed upper low pressure system ejected northeast through the Oklahoma/Texas Panhandle region during the afternoon and evening hours of March 16th, which helped mix a dry line east across Oklahoma and Texas. Ahead of this dry line, a broad warm and moist sector spread north across the Ark-La-Tex, which allowed for greater instability to overspread into the area ahead of this surface feature. A complex of showers and thunderstorms developed over West Texas during the late afternoon through the evening hours on the 16th, before advancing east across the state during the overnight and early morning hours of the 17th. Some of these storms remained severe as they moved through East Texas around and shortly after daybreak, where damaging winds downed trees and power lines before gradually weakening as they moved into Western Louisiana.

On the heels of the first winter storm and historically cold temperatures observed earlier in the week across all of the Southern Plains and much of the Lower Mississippi Valley, a second significant winter storm developed across much of these areas from February 16th-18th, with areas of snow, sleet, and freezing rain (some heavy) falling across much of East Texas. Strong forcing and moisture associated with the next upper level trough to move atop the extensive arctic air mass in place resulted in widespread snow and sleet totals of one to three inches, with isolated higher amounts up to five to seven inches over Eastern Cass County. Strong overrunning of warmer air atop the shallow freezing air mass in place resulted in areas of freezing rain over much of Deep East Texas, with ice accumulations of a tenth to a third of an inch observed. ||The following are snow and sleet totals that were recorded at various locations across East Texas from this second winter storm:||Cass County: Linden: 8.1 inches, Atlanta: 7.3 inches, 7 W Linden: 3.0 inches. ||Marion County: Jefferson: 3.0 inches. ||Harrison County: Hallsville: 2.5 inches, 3 N Karnack: 2.5 inches, Marshall: 2.4 inches, 4 S Hallsville: 1.8 inches, 3 WNW Waskom: 1.5 inches, 6 S Scottsville: 1.2 inches. ||Gregg County: White Oak: 7.0 inches, Longview: 3.2 inches. ||Upshur County: Bettie: 2.0 inches, 8 W Gilmer: 1.0 inches. ||Smith County: 9 ESE Tyler: 1.5 inches, 2 SSW Tyler: 1.3 inches, Tyler Pounds Field: 0.5 inches. ||Cherokee County: Rusk: 6.3 inches, Jacksonville: 2.0 inches. ||Rusk County: Henderson: 6.3 inches, 7 WNW Henderson: 6.3 inches. ||Panola County: Carthage: 2.0 inches, 4 W Gary City: 0.3 inches. ||Shelby County: 5 NW Center: 1.6 inches. ||Nacogdoches County: Nacogdoches: 0.5 inches, 2 SW Nacogdoches: 0.5 inches. |||The following are ice accumulations from freezing rain that were recorded at various locations in Deep East Texas from this second winter storm:||Nacogdoches County: 10 SSW Chireno: 0.25 inches. ||Angelina County: 6 N Hudson: 0.38 inches, Lufkin: 0.25 inches, 6 ESE Wells:0.10 inches. ||San Augustine County: San Augustine: 0.25 inches. ||Sabine County: Hemphill: 0.25 inches. ||When combined with the previous winter storm on the 14th-15th, widespread snow and sleet totals of four to ten inches were observed across much of East Texas, with isolated higher totals near fifteen inches over Eastern Cass County. These totals crippled the region, making driving nearly impossible, with rolling blackouts further aggravated by the additional power outages the snow and ice were responsible for. The majority of the power outages from this second winter storm were confined to Shelby, Nacogdoches, and Angelina Counties, as a result of ice accumulations on trees and power lines. In addition, the weight of the snow and ice from these two back to back winter storms also resulted in numerous metal carport canopies collapsing across East Texas, with many homes and cars damaged. Unfortunately, one fatality was reported in Rusk County from these these extremely cold temperatures that accompanied this second round of wintry precipitation, when a driver of a pickup froze to death in his vehicle near Mount Enterprise on the 17th.

A strong but shallow arctic air mass slowly seeped south through the Ouachita Mountains of Southeast Oklahoma and into portions of Northeast Texas throughout the early morning hours of February 11th, resulting in temperatures falling to or below freezing across these areas. A southwest flow aloft ahead of a large upper trough over the Rockies resulted in upper level disturbances traversing northeast atop this shallow arctic air mass, with moist and warmer (above freezing) air overrunning the front. This aided in the development of areas of light freezing rain and freezing drizzle over Smith and Cherokee Counties in Northeast Texas from the morning of the 11th through the early morning hours of the 12th, with ice accumulations of up to several hundredths of an inch observed. ||The ice mainly accumulated on trees and power lines, although some patchy ice was observed on bridges and overpasses across portions of Smith and Cherokee Counties. The following are icing impacts across these areas:||Smith County: Patchy ice was reported on bridges and overpasses just off of Interstate 20 on Toll Road 49, FM 849, and Highway 110 near the Hideaway community.||Cherokee County: Patchy ice was reported on various bridges throughout the county.

Cold, Canadian air spilled south into the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley during January 9th and 10th, ahead of strong high pressure over the Central Plains. Meanwhile, an upper trough traversed the Southern Rockies on the 9th and amplified upon entering the Southern Plains during the early morning hours of the 10th, producing a large swath of heavy snow across much of Western and Central Texas, which eventually moved into East Texas and North Louisiana during the afternoon and evening hours. Snowfall amounts ranged from two to in excess of six inches, with the highest totals falling along a corridor from Smith, Cherokee, Rusk, Panola, Shelby, and Nacogdoches Counties. These accumulations resulted in treacherous travel conditions across these areas, with the weight of the heavy wet snow contributing to a total of 56,128 customers without power across the AEP SWEPCO service area across East Texas and North Louisiana. An additional 55,000 customers with Oncor, Rusk County Electric, Upshur Rural Electric, and the Deep East Texas Electric Coop were also without power following this winter storm. ||Here are the snowfall totals measured from various locations across East Texas: ||Wood County: 2.6 N Hawkins: 3.0 inches.||Smith County: Bullard: 5.5 inches, Flint: 5 inches, Winona: 5.0 inches, 3 SE Tyler Pounds Field Airport: 4.5 inches, 2.2 NNE Lindale: 4.1 inches, 0.8 ESE Whitehouse: 4.0 inches, Tyler: 4.0 inches, Noonday: 4.0 inches, 3 NE Lindale: 3.5 inches.||Gregg County: Liberty City: 5.0 inches, 1 SW Liberty City: 4.5 inches, East TX Regional Airport: 4 inches, Longview: 3.8 inches, 4 ESE East Mountain: 3 inches, East Longview: 3.0 inches, Judson: 2.0 inches.||Upshur County: 3.9 E Big Sandy: 5.0 inches, Big Sandy: 3.0 inches, Gilmer: 2.8 inches, 1 NE Bettie: 1.8 inches, 2 W Diana: 1.1 inches.||Marion County: Jefferson: 1.5 inches, 15.4 ESE Jefferson: 1.3 inches. ||Harrison County: 4 S Hallsville: 4.8 inches, 4.9 NE Marshall: 4.0 inches, Marshall: 3.0 inches, 1 E Marshall: 2.5 inches, 4.6 WSW Harleton: 2.0 inches, Jonesville: 2.0 inches, Crossroads: 1.5 inches, 2.6 N Karnack: 1.3 inches.||Panola County: Gary City: 5.0 inches, Carthage: 4.5 inches.||Rusk County: 9 WNW Mount Enterprise: 6.5 inches, Henderson: 6.1 inches, 6.9 WNW Henderson: 5.0 inches.||Cherokee County: 3.7 E Bullard: 6.3 inches, 2 W New Summerfield: 6.1 inches, Rusk: 6.0 inches, Jacksonville: 5.5 inches, 7 SSW Jacksonville: 5.0 inches, 3 SSW Jacksonville: 4.0 inches, 10 S Cuney: 4.0 inches.||Angelina County: 5 ESE Wells: 5.0 inches, 7 W Lufkin: 4.2 inches, 2 ESE Zavalla: 3.1 inches, Lufkin: 3.0 inches, Diboll: 2.5 inches.||Nacogdoches County: 9.5 NE Nacogdoches: 6.2 inches, Appleby: 6.0 inches, 5 SSW Nacogdoches: 5.5 inches, Nacogdoches: 5.0 inches, 8 NE Wells: 4.3 inches, 4 SW Appleby: 4.0 inches.||Shelby County: 5 NW Center: 6.5 inches, Center: 6.0 inches, Joaquin: 6.0 inches, Timpson: 5.5 inches.||San Augustine County: 5 N San Augustine: 4.0 inches, 15.3 SE Broaddus: 1.0 inch.||Sabine County: Sexton: 5.0 inches, Hemphill: 2.5 inches.

A weak shortwave trough drifted south into Southeast Oklahoma and Southwest Arkansas during the early morning hours of July 5th, with large scale forcing enhancing shower and thunderstorm development as they built south into more unstable air across East Texas, extreme Southwest Arkansas, and Northwest Louisiana. A southwesterly low level flow was enough to sustain these showers and thunderstorms as they shifted southeast, with some of these storms briefly severe producing damaging winds which downed trees and power lines across these areas. Given the very moist air mass in place, these storms were also prolific rainfall producers, with widespread rainfall amounts of 2-4 inches observed. In fact, some areas of Western Harrison County recorded 4-6+ inch amounts where thunderstorms repeatedly moved over this area between 300-700 am, with a CoCoRaHS observer about 6 miles north of Hallsville recording 6.43 inches of rainfall that morning, contributing to flash flooding in this area.||While these showers and thunderstorms weakened after daybreak on the 5th, additional scattered showers and thunderstorms developed throughout the day with diurnal heating as the trough became stationary of Northeast Texas, and a second shortwave trough drifting east from Northwest across North-central Texas, triggering a cluster of storms from the DFW Metroplex which tracked southeast into East-Central Texas as it continued to tap moderate instability through the afternoon and evening. Some of these storms became severe as they entered portions of Smith and Rusk Counties, with damaging winds downing trees and power lines over these areas. These storms eventually weakened during the late evening over extreme Eastern Texas as they entered an environment with reduced instability.

Warm, moist, and unstable air surged north into East Texas, North Louisiana, and Southern Arkansas during the evening through the early morning hours of April 11th-12th, along a warm front that lifted north across much of East Texas into North Louisiana. Meanwhile, a strong upper level low opened up into a trough as it entered the Southern Plains during the evening of the 11th, with large scale forcing ahead of the trough enhancing shower and thunderstorm development across much of West-central, Central, East and Southeast Texas during the evening through the early morning hours. Given the extent of shear, instability, and upper level forcing in place across the warm sector, numerous showers and thunderstorms developed over these areas, which quickly spread east northeast into East Texas around and shortly after daybreak on the 12th. Some of these storms were severe, producing numerous reports of damaging winds, large hail, and locally heavy rainfall which resulted in isolated flash flooding. Two isolated tornadoes also touched down in Shelby and Southern Harrison Counties. ||While there was a lull in the thunderstorms from late morning through much of the afternoon, additional strong to severe thunderstorms developed across portions of Northeast Texas well behind the dry line which had mixed east to near Texarkana into Western Louisiana, and near the center of the upper level trough. Steep lapse rates aloft and the drier low level air mass contributed to areas of damaging winds and isolated instances of large hail, with the majority of the wind damage from a collapsing thunderstorm which originated just east of Dallas, and quickly moved east along the I-20 corridor in East Texas. Aided by strong pressure rises behind an associated cold front, a large swath of damaging winds were noted with the severe gust front, with gusts ranging from 50-70 mph well ahead of the collapsed storm. This resulted in numerous reports of downed trees and power lines across East Texas and Western Louisiana, with AEP Swepco noting that over 64,000 customers were without power at one time in the aftermath of the storms. These damaging winds exited East Texas into Western Louisiana by early evening before gradually weakening.

An upper level longwave trough emerged out of the Intermountain West and into the Central and Southern Plains during the daytime and evening hours of January 10th. A strong southerly return flow commenced out ahead of the trough during the 8th-9th, allowing for unseasonably warm and humid conditions to advance northward across Southern Oklahoma, much of Central and Eastern Texas, as well as Louisiana, Arkansas, and the Lower Mississippi Valley. Meanwhile, an intensifying surface low pressure system and associated dry line developed along the Red River of North Texas into Southern Oklahoma during the afternoon hours, which spread east northeast across the Ark-La-Tex during the early morning hours on January 11th. With afternoon temperatures climbing into the mid 70s ahead of this trough, moderate instability developed across the broad warm sector, with very strong wind shear in place as large scale forcing increased ahead of the trough axis across East Texas, Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas, and North Louisiana. Thus, an axis of strong to severe showers and thunderstorms developed during the evening hours across Southeast Oklahoma, adjacent sections of Southwest Arkansas and East Texas, which advanced east into North Louisiana during the early morning hours of the 11th. Damaging winds downed trees and power lines across portions of East Texas, with even multiple tornadoes touching down along the line of severe thunderstorms. Unfortunately, a man was killed when a tornado touched down west of Nacogdoches and a tree fell on his mobile home. These storms also produced locally heavy rainfall, with amounts of one to three inches, with isolated higher amounts up to four inches recorded across much of this area, resulting in isolated instances of flash flooding. These storms continued to intensify during the late evening and early morning hours as they moved into extreme Eastern Texas and Western Louisiana, producing more in the way of widespread wind damage and isolated tornadoes.

A longwave trough dug south into the Southern Plains during the daytime hours of October 20th, with southerly winds increasing ahead of the trough helping to return low level moisture north from the Gulf of Mexico. Above normal temperatures were seen across much of the region as readings climbed into the mid 80s to near 90 degrees, which enhanced instability during the late afternoon through the evening hours across much of the Ark-La-Tex area. Wind shear increased during the evening, with an isolated supercell thunderstorm developing over Central Cherokee County Texas, which tracked northeast across Central Rusk, Western and Northern Panola Counties, and into the Shreveport/Bossier City areas of Northwest Louisiana before weakening. This supercell produced a tornado across Western Panola County Texas, with numerous reports of damaging winds which downed trees and power lines, as well as hail before diminishing over Northwest Louisiana. Additional strong to severe thunderstorms developed during the late evening through the early morning hours on October 21st across Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas, and North Louisiana ahead of this trough and associated strong cold front, as wind shear increased within a still unstable environment. These storms produced numerous reports of damaging winds across these areas, with even another isolated tornado touching down in Central Cass County before diminishing shortly after daybreak with the departure of this system.

A moist and unstable airmass was present during late evening through the early morning hours on March 13th-14th across East Texas, ahead of a cold front and associated vigorous upper level trough which moved into the Plains earlier in the day on the 13th. Strong forcing along the upper trough developed near and just ahead of the cold front, resulting in a line of strong to severe thunderstorms developing along the front across Eastcentral Texas after 1 am on the 14th. These storms produced numerous reports of damaging winds which downed trees and power lines across much of East Texas, as well as several instances of small hail. In the aftermath of these storms, more than 6,000 customers of Oncor, SWEPCO, Upshur Rural Electric, and Wood County Rural Electric were without power.

A vigorous upper level trough developed over the Four Corners Region on December 26th, before taking on a negative tilt as it ejected northeast across Northwest and North Texas and much of Oklahoma during the early morning hours of the 27th. Strong southerly winds ahead of this upper trough resulted in warm, humid conditions spreading north across East Texas, North Louisiana, and extreme Southern Arkansas, resulting in weak to moderate surface based instability over these areas. Wind shear was also very strong ahead of this system, with the rapidly increasing moisture return and subtle forcing ahead of the trough allowing for scattered showers and thunderstorms to develop during the afternoon and especially during the evening over East Texas, Southeast Oklahoma, and adjacent sections of Southwest Arkansas. Isolated supercell thunderstorms developed over portions of East Texas during the evening, with several reports of large hail and damaging winds over Smith County. Meanwhile, a squall line developed just to the west over Northern and Central Texas along the ejecting upper trough, with these thunderstorms racing east across East Texas, Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas, and North Louisiana during the late evening through the overnight hours of the 26th-27th. Numerous reports of damaging winds which downed trees and power lines were reported from this squall line over East Texas, before the strongest storms quickly exited this area after 1 AM on the 27th.||In addition to the damaging winds and large hail, locally heavy rainfall also accompanied these storms, with rainfall amounts ranging from two to four inches with isolated higher amounts. Much of these rains fell over an extended period of time, and given the already saturated grounds from much above normal rainfall that fell since September, many smaller creeks, streams, and bayous began to overflow their banks which flooded/closed numerous roadways across East Texas well after the heavy rainfall had ended during the morning hours.

An upper level ridge of high pressure was anchored over the Central Plains during the afternoon of July 6th, with weak impulses aloft in the easterly flow interacting with strong diurnal heating to generate isolated to widely scattered showers and thunderstorms across Southwest Arkansas, North Louisiana, East Texas, and Southeast Oklahoma. Given the strong instability that had developed that afternoon, some of these storms became severe, which resulted in damaging winds which downed trees and power lines across portions of East Texas before the storms diminished during the evening with the loss of heating.

The Southern Plains upper level ridge of high pressure began to break down during the daytime hours on June 10th, allowing for a weak upper level trough to drift south into Northeast Texas, extreme Southern Arkansas, and Northern Louisiana. A deepening south-southwest low to mid level flow resulted in an increase in Gulf moisture north across these areas, which when combined with afternoon temperatures in the lower to mid 90s, resulted in moderate instability and the development of isolated to widely scattered showers and thunderstorms. One of these storms became severe over Southeastern Smith County Texas, resulting in numerous trees and power lines to be blown down in the community of Arp. These storms quickly diminished during the evening with the loss of heating and instability.

A mesoscale convective complex developed during the late evening hours on February 19th across Northern and Central Texas, ahead of an elongated north to south upper trough of low pressure that extended from Western Oklahoma through Western Texas and Northcentral Mexico. This complex of strong to severe thunderstorms marched east into Eastcentral Texas during the early morning hours on February 20th, where strong low level shear and ample instability at the surface and aloft remained in place. Embedded lewps and bows continued to develop along the leading edge of these storms, which produced areas of strong, damaging winds which downed trees and power lines across portions of East Texas. These storms eventually weakened as the lead gust front outran the convection just prior to daybreak.

An outflow boundary from showers and thunderstorms that developed over Southwest Oklahoma during the evening and overnight hours on April 10th became stationary over Northern McCurtain County Oklahoma into the adjacent sections of Western Arkansas during the early morning hours of April 11th. This boundary focused scattered shower and thunderstorm development through the morning of the 11th, with large scale forcing enhanced especially during the afternoon and evening hours as a weak upper level trough traversed the Red River Valley of Southern Oklahoma/North Texas into Southwest Arkansas. Afternoon heating and cooling temperatures aloft ahead of this disturbance contributed to moderate instability developing especially over Southeast Oklahoma, Northeast Texas, and portions of Southwest Arkansas, contributing to the development of several severe thunderstorms over these areas. Damaging winds were the primary severe weather mode over Southwest Arkansas, with numerous trees and power lines downed especially across the south side of Texarkana Texas and Arkansas. Several other supercell thunderstorms developed over the north side of the DFW Metroplex near and south of a cold front, and moved east southeast into Northeast Texas during the late afternoon and evening hours. These storms were prolific hail producers, with numerous reports of quarter to golfball size hail, with even larger stones to the size of baseballs and larger over Wood and Upshur Counties. The storms weakened during the late evening hours as the instability diminished.

Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms developed over Southern Oklahoma and North Texas during the evening of March 23rd, ahead of an upper level trough and associated cold front that were pushing east. These showers and thunderstorms began to weaken as they moved into Southeast Oklahoma and Northeast Texas during the late evening hours as they encountered reduced instability, but some of these storms did produce damaging winds after 1am on March 24th over Northeast Texas before weakening further. The remnants of these strong storms continued to push east ahead of the front during the early morning hours, and developed a cold pool which accelerated east across portions of extreme Eastern Texas into Northern Louisiana and Southern Arkansas along the Arkansas/Louisiana state line. There was little lightning associated with this convection, but they did produce damaging winds which downed a number of trees and power lines throughout the early morning hours over these areas. These damaging winds weakened just before daybreak on the 24th as they moved into more stable air over Southcentral Arkansas and Northcentral Louisiana.

An isolated severe thunderstorm developed during the evening hours across portions of Northeast Texas on November 5th, 2015. These thunderstorms developed under a weakly unstable, highly sheared environment as an upper level trough moved into the Southern Plains/Lower Mississippi Valley. These storms were mainly wind producers which downed some powerlines in Smith County, Texas.

Isolated severe thunderstorms developed during the mid-afternoon hours across portions of Northeast Texas on August 11th, as a very hot and unstable air mass developed ahead of a weak cool front that backdoored southwest across the area. These severe thunderstorms developed over Smith County Texas, resulting in multiple reports of downed trees and power lines from damaging winds.

An arctic cold front moved through the region during the morning hours of March 2nd. An upper level disturbance trailed the cold front and as a result, strong lift resulted in the development of post frontal convection. Surface temperatures slowly fell throughout the day with temperatures reaching the freezing mark by early afternoon across portions of the region. Temperatures cooled enough in the lower levels of the atmosphere such that freezing rain transitioned over to sleet across much of the area. Given the convective nature of some of the precipitation, widespread sleet accumulations of one half to one inch were reported. There were some isolated areas with total sleet accumulations near 2 inches. Further east where temperatures were not cold enough aloft for sleet, freezing rain was the dominant precipitation type accumulations near one quarter to one half inch. The freezing rain and sleet accumulations resulted in numerous automobile accidents along with power outages from falling limbs and trees throughout the northern half of Northeast Texas.

With a very cold atmosphere already in place, an upper level storm system moved out of the Texas Hill Country and into Northeast Texas, Southwest Arkansas and Northwest Louisiana during the afternoon hours of February 11th. Precipitation became widespread across the region late in the afternoon and especially during the overnight hours of February 11th and the 12th. During the onset of precipitation, a mixture of rain and sleet was the predominant precipitation type with some sleet accumulations near one quarter of an inch across portions of Northeast Texas. There was even a brief transition of moderate snow across portions of the region as well. During the evening and overnight hours of the event, the transition turned to predominantly freezing rain with ice accumulations mainly less than one quarter of an inch across Northeast Texas. Impacts included several automobile accidents that occurred from icing in elevated bridges and overpasses as well as isolated power outages from ice accumulating on limbs which fell across powerlines.

Another cold shallow arctic airmass moved southeast out of the Southern Plains and into the Lower Mississippi Valley the first week of December. The shallow subfreezing airmass was overridden with a very warm and moist airmass such that freezing rain and sleet fell across the region. Ice accumulation was mainly less than one quarter of an inch but resulted in accumulation on bridges and overpasses, trees and powerlines. Some traffic accidents were noted across Northeast Texas during the height of the winter weather along with a few power outages.

A shallow cold layer of air moved out of the Southern Plains and into the Lower Mississippi Valley on the 24th of November. The flow aloft across the southern portion of the country was from the southwest. This resulted in an overrunning pattern of warm and moist air overrunning the cold shallow subfreezing air. The end result was a period of freezing rain and sleet across portions of Northeast Texas. Ice accumulation was mostly less than one quarter of an inch and mainly just north of the Interstate 20 corridor of Northeast Texas. Temperatures were well above normal before this airmass settled into the region so the ice accumulation was mainly on elevated objects such as bridges, overpasses, trees, powerlines and car tops.

A strong cold front moved through Northeast Texas during the evening hours of January 13th and the predawn hours of January 14th. Rain and a few storms accompanied the passage of this cold front across the southeast half of the state. A very cold airmass filtered in behind the frontal boundary. Meanwhile, weak disturbances moved towards the state from the west and with plenty of moisture still in place, overrunning precipitation developed during the morning of January 15th. With surface temperatures near or slightly below freezing, the precipitation fell as a mixture of freezing rain and sleet before changing over to light snow across the northern third of Northeast Texas...mainly north of the Interstate 20 corridor. Only light ice accumulations from the freezing rain and sleet were noted across Northeast Texas but some minor snow accumulations were also reported. Some bridges and overpasses quickly became slick resulting in a few automobile accidents across Northeast Texas. In addition, there were some minor power outages from falling limbs due to the weight of the ice.

A strong cold front moved through Northeast Texas during the evening hours of January 13th and the predawn hours of January 14th. Rain and a few storms accompanied the passage of this cold front. A very cold and shallow airmass followed the cold front yet southwesterly winds overran this cold shallow airmass above five thousand feet in the atmosphere. Meanwhile, weak disturbances moved towards the state from the west and with plenty of moisture still in place, overrunning precipitation developed during the morning of January 14th. With surface temperatures near or slightly below freezing, the precipitation fell as a mixture of sleet with some freezing rain noted as well. Accumulations were very light, mainly less than a tenth of an inch for the event. Regardless, bridges and overpasses quickly became slick resulting in numerous automobile accidents across portions of Northeast Texas. In addition, there were some minor power outages from falling limbs due to the weight of the ice.

A strong cold front moved through northeast Texas during the day Saturday, December 27th. Near record high temps with dewpoints in the 60s ahead of the front along with a strong low level jet of 50 knots made for an environment favorable for tornadoes. Scattered strong thunderstorms developed along the cold front across northeast Texas. A tornado was reported across Franklin County, Texas but the majority of the wind damage across the rest of northeast Texas was non-convective in nature as a result of strong post-frontal wind gusts. The strong non-thunderstorm winds resulted in a few downed trees and large tree limbs...mainly across Smith, Bowie, Cherokee Counties. Some power was knocked out in a few locations with some roof damage reported west of Tyler, Texas in Smith County.

Hurricane Ike came onshore across extreme southeast Texas during the late night hours of September 12th and the pre-dawn hours of September 13th. The storm made good progress northward during the day of September 13th and brought Tropical Storm force winds to much of northeast Texas and northwest Louisiana and extreme southwest Arkansas. The storm produced widespread downed trees and power lines along with structural damage either from the winds or from downed trees which fell on top of structures. Power outages were widespread across a three state area of northeast Texas, northwest Louisiana and southwest Arkansas. Southwest Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) which provides electricity to a good portion of northeast Texas, northwest Louisiana and southwest Arkansas said that the number of outages peaked at 187,000 customers. Additional power companies were called in from far away as Indiana and Michigan to deal with the numerous power outages. This was the second most number of outages at one time reported in SWEPCO's 96 year history. The most number of outages was 234,000 during the ice storm of December 13th, 2000. The number of power outages in association with Hurricane Ike topped the September 2005 recovery from Hurricane Rita by nearly 1000 customers. The storm also produced tornadoes across portions of north central Louisiana as well as south central Arkansas and east central Texas.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed during the heating of the afternoon in a very unstable airmass across the region. Storms that developed across northeast Texas and extreme northwest Louisiana produced strong wind gusts which downed trees and power lines in the Tyler, Texas area as well as in Bossier City, Louisiana.

During the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 17th, a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) developed over western Oklahoma, and surged southeastward into north Texas after sunrise. This storm system produced widespread 60-70 mph wind gusts across much of north Texas, including Dallas, which then spread into east Texas during the early afternoon hours. Numerous trees and power lines were downed across areas generally along and south of Interstate 20, particularly in the city if Tyler, and also Center, Texas. In fact, trees fell atop several buildings in Center, although no injuries were reported. The storms weakened by early evening, as they spread/developed farther southward into southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.

A strong pressure gradient initially across northeast Texas and northwest Louisiana during the pre dawn hours of April 10th produced non-thunderstorm wind gusts responsible for downing trees and power lines. Later that morning...a squall line entered northeast Texas and southeast Oklahoma producing mostly wind damage along with some large hail and an isolated tornado in Bowie County Texas.

A strong sea-breeze boundary moved quickly northward out of southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana during the afternoon hours of the 26th. A strong line of thunderstorms developed along the leading edge of the boundary causing sporadic strong winds that downed a few trees and power lines across portions of northeast Texas and northwest Louisiana. Cloud to ground lightning was very intense as well and lightning resulted in scattered power outages in southwest Arkansas and northeast Texas.