Wednesday, January 20, 2010
East Texas & North Louisiana Hail Storm Damage Reports
There are a lot of reports of hail storm damage starting to come in from east Texas and North Louisiana including the Gilmer, Texas and Shreveport, Louisiana areas. At this point it is really hard to get any good information out of the area because there are almost constant tornado warnings being issued and that is just about all the local news stations are reporting on.
I did find a page of locally submitted weather images that show quite a bit of good damaging size hail stones. Unfortunately, no one told these folks to label their pictures with the location, so we don't have any idea where most of them are from. You can check out the gallery by clicking here.
Grand Saline, TX
Judging by the pics in the above gallery, it looks like there should be some damage in the Grand Saline, TX area.
Shreveport, LA
This is absolute speculation at this point and I hesitate to post it here but I will as long as everyone understands that it's purely a guess. Going off of the reports I'm reading and the images I've been able to find of the hail stones from these storms, It really looks like there is a good chance that the north side of the Shreveport, Lousiana metro area has a decent amount of hail damage. That part of town is widely varied in the demographics of the neighborhoods. Some of the subdivisions are very luxurious and some of the neighborhoods are actually 'hoods. Seriously, if you are checking this area out, be careful what you wander into.
If you decide to chase this storm this evening, be sure to be careful out there. There are several reports of trees and telephone poles down across the highways especially I-20 near the Loisiana - Texas state line.
I wont be running on this storm but I will be monitoring it closely to see how it develops. One thing is for sure, there will almost certainly be a lot of hail damaged cars out of this storm as well as a bunch of roof hail damage on houses all across the east Texas and North Louisiana area. It also looks like the hail damage area may easily stretch into Oklahoma and South Arkansas before the night is over.
Labels: Louisiana Hail Damage, Lousiana hail damage reports, Texas hail damage reports
