Severe Storms To Hit Shreveport With Possible Hail & High Winds

Forecasters are keeping a close eye on a series of storms that should hit the Arklatex area beginning today and could bring nasty conditions with them.

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Early this morning, Wednesday, May 22, the National Weather Service in Shreveport issued a hazardous weather outlook for south central Arkansas, southwest Arkansas, north central Louisiana, northwest Louisiana, southeast Oklahoma, east Texas and northeast Texas.

In the outlook, the NWS states that strong to severe thunderstorms will become widespread late this afternoon, into the evening and overnight hours across much of the Four State Region.

Large hail, damaging thunderstorm wind gusts and locally heavy downpours will be the primary threats with an isolated tornado threat as well. The severe weather threat should end from northwest to southeast across the region overnight tonight.

While widespread flooding is not likely through tonight, flooding of low lying and flood prone areas will be possible with heavy downpours through tonight.

Once we've recovered from this storm, the NWS is forecasting that severe weather will be possible once again late Thursday into Thursday Night, late Friday into Friday Night and again late in the day on Saturday across mainly portions of Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma and Southwest Arkansas.

Large hail and damaging thunderstorm wind gusts will again be the main threats Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The possibility of yet another blow from Mother Nature comes as a strong cold front will move through the region on Memorial Day and Monday Night bringing with it another chance of thunderstorms.

Before the cold front arrives late on Monday, we will see some of the hottest temperatures of the late Spring season with afternoon high temperatures both Saturday and Sunday in the lower to middle 90s.

Combine this with high afternoon humidity and heat indices could approach 105 degrees across some locations.