Public Information Statement
Issued by NWS Shreveport, LA
Issued by NWS Shreveport, LA
084 NOUS44 KSHV 092058 PNSSHV ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077- TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-100900- Public Information Statement National Weather Service Shreveport LA 358 PM CDT Fri May 9 2025 ...NWS Damage Survey for May 6th, 2025 Severe Weather Event... .Update #2...Updated to add Lake Bistineau tornado. .Tornado #1: Bullard TX Tornado... Rating: EF1 Estimated Peak Wind: 93 mph Path Length /statute/: 4.95 miles Path Width /maximum/: 600 yards Fatalities: 0 Injuries: 0 Start Date: 05/06/2025 Start Time: 01:41 PM CDT Start Location: 2 WNW Bullard / Smith County / TX Start Lat/Lon: 32.151 / -95.3517 End Date: 05/06/2025 End Time: 01:48 PM CDT End Location: 3 E Bullard / Smith County / TX End Lat/Lon: 32.1412 / -95.2683 Survey Summary: This low-end EF-1 tornado with peak winds around 90 mph started in a rural area west of Bullard, Texas, in an open field just east of County Road 173 and gradually grew in size and strength as it continued just south of due east into the north side of Bullard. The tornado was its most intense near North Houston Street and west of US Highway 69 where several hardwood trees exhibited snapped trunks and uprooted trees were quite concentrated, especially on the west side of a neighborhood just north of Lynch Drive. In this neighborhood there were also quite a few residences with low end roof damage, mainly in the form of shingle loss. In this general area there were also some residences damaged by falling trees and tree limbs, but this was also the case east of Highway 69 in a residential area just north of East Henderson Street and in the rather large Pecan Valley subdivision south of East Henderson Street. The tornadic circulation appeared to have gone across the entirety of the latter subdivision. Many trees were uprooted in various directions in this subdivision, but the well-built residences in this area generally did not sustain direct damage from the tornado because the winds were only judged at EF-0 intensity. Throughout the length of the tornado, downed hardwood and softwood trees were primarily uprooted and the somewhat saturated state of the soils likely yielded more uproots than would otherwise have been the case if the soils were not as moist and the survey team took this into account in their rating assessment. East of this neighborhood, the tornado continued across County Road 121 before the NWS survey team judged the tornado lifted near the intersection of County Road 118 and County Road 117. There were several individuals in the path of this tornado that were interviewed by the survey team and who reported seeing the tornado on approach. The tornado itself was part of an organized thunderstorm squall line that was producing damaging wind gusts and doing at least isolated tree damage through the southern portion of Smith County Texas. The survey team estimated the tornado path away from other general tree damage due to tree damage oriented in different directions and at least occasionally exhibiting convergent damage signatures. In total, this tornado had a path length of nearly 5 miles and a rather wide peak width of nearly 600 yards. Many thanks to members of the Smith County media and the Smith County Emergency Management Community for helping the NWS Survey Team locate general areas of damage. .Tornado #2: Southwest Caddo Parish LA/Southwest Shreveport Tornado... Rating: EF1 Estimated Peak Wind: 105 mph Path Length /statute/: 12.84 miles Path Width /maximum/: 0 yards Fatalities: 0 Injuries: 0 Start Date: 05/06/2025 Start Time: 03:26 PM CDT Start Location: 8 S Greenwood / Caddo Parish / LA Start Lat/Lon: 32.3149 / -93.9912 End Date: 05/06/2025 End Time: 03:40 PM CDT End Location: 4 S Shreveport / Caddo Parish / LA End Lat/Lon: 32.4127 / -93.8071 Survey Summary: A strong EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 105 mph touched down north of Springridge Texas Line Road and west of Providence Road, where it tracked behind and adjacent to Providence Baptist Church, where multiple trees were snapped and uprooted, particularly in the church cemetery along Providence Road. The tornado moved northeast across the end of Adams and Sebastian Roads, where it was strongest and widest, with numerous trees snapped and uprooted. At least a few homes had trees fall on them at both of these locations, before the tornado tracked across Highway 169 (Greenwood Springridge Road), where additional trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado then moved across Woolworth Road near and just north of the Caddo Parish landfill, where additional trees were downed. Damaging southwest winds just south of the tornadic circulation downed at least one tree and large limbs at the Caddo Parish landfill, although access to the landfill was not available beyond the office area. The tornado then entered the city limits in Southwest Shreveport in the Newcastle subdivision, where multiple trees were snapped and uprooted. At least two homes on Lytham Drive and one on North Heatherstone Drive had trees fall on them, although the tornado began to weaken as it crossed Dean Road/Cedar Creek Drive north of Bert Kouns Industrial Loop. Damage was mostly confined to snapped large limbs along Brandon Drive, Rosedown Place, and Twelve Oaks Drive, before the tornado crossed the track and athletic field on the north side of Southwood High School. No damage was observed at the school itself, although a large pine tree was uprooted across the street at the Dollar General at the corner of Walker Road and Mackey Lane. The tree crushed an adjacent fence, and two vehicles in front of the dollar store, while some shingles were lifted up on a southward facing private apartment adjacent to the store. Additional large limbs were snapped along Mackey Lane before the tornado finally lifted shortly before reaching Summer Grove Baptist Church. Special thanks goes out to the Caddo Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, for their assistance in locating damage in this survey. .Tornado #3: Lake Bistineau, LA Tornado... Rating: EF0 Estimated Peak Wind: 80 mph Path Length /statute/: 2.53 miles Path Width /maximum/: 340 yards Fatalities: 0 Injuries: 0 Start Date: 05/06/2025 Start Time: 03:54 PM CDT Start Location: 10 W Ringgold / Bossier Parish / LA Start Lat/Lon: 32.352 / -93.4617 End Date: 05/06/2025 End Time: 03:57 PM CDT End Location: 9 WNW Ringgold / Bossier Parish / LA End Lat/Lon: 32.3738 / -93.4323 Survey Summary: This brief line-embedded tornado initially touched down along LA Hwy154 between Elm Grove and Lake Bistineau. Damage was extremely sporadic and consisted almost entirely of large and small limbs being downed from hardwood trees. However, a couple of larger tree trunks were split along the path. The tornado roughly moved east, crossing Fairview Point Road, then turned northeast, crossing Evangeline Drive, Parish Camp Road, and Public Camp Road. The most consistent path of tree damage was found in the Bossier Parish Camp at Lake Bistineau. The tornado likely moved over Lake Bistineau and lifted. No consistent evidence of a tornado damage track was located on the eastern shore. Still, sporadic tree damage from the intense bow echo was observed in Northern Bienville and Southern Webster Parishes. Many thanks go to the Bossier Parish and Webster Parish Offices of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for their assistance in locating the damage. .Southern Ouachita Parish Wind Damage Swath... Rating: TSTM/Wind Estimated Peak Wind: 95 mph Path Length /statute/: 23.45 miles Path Width /maximum/: 17000 yards Fatalities: 0 Injuries: 1 Start Date: 05/06/2025 Start Time: 05:05 PM CDT Start Location: 2 ESE Eros / Jackson Parish / LA Start Lat/Lon: 32.3826 / -92.3898 End Date: 05/06/2025 End Time: 05:38 PM CDT End Location: 5 E Richwood / Ouachita Parish / LA End Lat/Lon: 32.4324 / -91.993 Survey Summary: An intense bowing squall line of thunderstorms raced eastward across the southern portion of Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, at around 60 mph during the early evening hours of May 6th, 2025, producing widespread damaging wind gusts of 60 to 90 mph with isolated peak gusts estimated to be up to 95 mph. An NWS survey team surveyed a majority of this huge wind damage swath with an estimated peak swath width of up to 10 miles. The survey team encountered nearly countless amounts of downed trees within this wind damage swath, but the team estimates the number of downed trees was easily at least 1000. Within this wind damage swath, many trees were downed onto structures, causing damage to scores of outbuildings and residences. Due to the vast area of wind damage, the survey team could not survey every area of damage, but they did use thorough reports from the Ouachita Parish Emergency Management community to arrive at the preliminary wind damage assessment for the southern portion of the parish. This assessment judges that the wind damage swath gradually widened to its estimated peak width as it approached the Ouachita River and Highway 165 south of Richwood. It is important to note that the survey team found that an overwhelming majority of the downed trees were laid over to the east or northeast with a general lack of convergence in damage patterns. Those findings, in concert with the idealized radar representation of a bowing arc of thunderstorms capable of widespread straight line wind damage, led the survey team to estimate the damage was indeed caused by widespread straight line wind damage and not tornadic. It is also important to note that the soils across the area were quite saturated from the recent high amounts of rainfall and thus would allow trees to uproot more easily than would otherwise be the case, thus one reason for the extremely high amounts of downed trees. Of course, some areas in the wind damage swath had more concentrated damage than others, which is relatively normal with this sort of weather phenomenon. One such area was along Howard Brown Road just north of Highway 34 where an adult female was injured due to being in an outside shed that was demolished by a large uprooted tree. The survey team knows of no other injuries associated with the wind damage at this time. Finally, it is important to note that these findings are preliminary at this time and the survey team will adjust findings as needed, based on any further reports that come in from the Ouachita Parish Emergency Management Community. In addition, many thanks to this community for their considerable help determining the breadth and concentrated areas of damage within this overall wind damage swath. && EF Scale: The Enhanced Fujita Scale classifies tornadoes into the following categories: EF0.....65 to 85 mph EF1.....86 to 110 mph EF2.....111 to 135 mph EF3.....136 to 165 mph EF4.....166 to 200 mph EF5.....>200 mph NOTE: The information in this statement is preliminary and subject to change pending final review of the events and publication in NWS Storm Data. $$ 15/26/50/10/09