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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1015 AM CDT Mon Apr 27 2020

...NWS Damage Survey For 04/24/2020 Wind and Large Hail Event...

.Straight-Line Winds Confirmed in Linden, TX...

A damage survey was conducted in Linden in Cass County, TX from
the wind damage that occurred on the evening of Friday, April 24th.
The survey team found several hundred hardwood and softwood trees
that were mostly uprooted with a few trunks snapped.  An automobile
service building on Houston Street in downtown Linden had its metal
awning destroyed.  Another building at the corner of South Church
Street and Houston Street had a portion of its metal roof ripped
off, bringing down cinder blocks from a wall and destroying a
vehicle parked nearby.  Locations along Texas Street, Oklahoma
Street, Kildare Road, and Arkansas Avenue were particularly hard
hit with a more concentrated area of straight-line winds.  Due to
most of the damage being oriented in the east-southeast direction,
it was determined to occur from straight-line winds estimated at
90 mph.

.Large Hail from Northeast Texas to North-Central Louisiana...

The same storm that produced damage in Linden, TX tracked
originally from south of Paris, TX, in Lamar County across
northeast Texas, and into northwest and north-central Louisiana,
downing trees and producing large hail along its path.  There were
multiple reports of 2-3" in diameter hail.  The largest confirmed
hail report was 4.00" (softball size) in the Legacy Subdivision 5
miles south-southeast of Benton, Louisiana in Bossier Parish.  This
large hail fell just short of the Louisiana state record of 4.5"
(grapefruit size) which has occurred several times; the most
recent documented occurrence in the NWS Shreveport county and
parish warning area was in both Shreveport and Mansfield on April
23rd, 2000.

NOTE:
The information in this statement is preliminary and subject to
change pending final review of the event and publication in
NWS Storm Data. 

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