The anticipated Christmas week severe weather event is beginning to unfold at this hour. The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK has issued a large Tornado Watch box encompassing portions of 4 states. The watch extends from North to South from SE Oklahoma into extreme SW Arkansas, a large portion of East Texas, and West Louisiana. It includes such municipalities as McAlester, OK, Texarkana, AR and TX, Shreveport-Bossier City, Tyler, Longview, and Marshall, TX, Bryan-College Station, TX, Lufkin, TX, Jasper, TX, and DeRidder, Leesville-Fort Polk. It does not include anyone along the I-10 corridor in SE Texas or SW Louisiana, but this is just a harbinger of things to come, and I expect more watches to be issued later on this evening.
The current Tornado Watch is in effect until 3Z Thursday (9p.m. CST- Wednesday), and includes
Beauregard and Vernon Parishes in SW Louisiana, and Jasper, Newton, and Tyler Counties in SE Texas.
More information forthcoming as the event begins to come to fruition.
-DM-
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