May 14, 2008
Excessive heavy rainfall developed across southwest Arkansas during the overnight and pre dawn hours of May 14th. This rainfall developed due to a very moist airmass in place across the Lower Mississippi Valley and a slow moving upper level low pressure system that moved eastward into the region from Texas. During the late night hours of May 14th...a significant bow echo event developed across portions of northeast Texas...producing straight line winds approaching 100 mph along with a tornado n
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 103656). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Gregg County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.