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Upper level ridging was centered across Central Texas during the afternoon of August 6th but there was just enough of a weakness aloft across Northeast Texas and Southwest Arkansas for showers and thunderstorms to form with the aid of afternoon heating. Afternoon instability was excessive in some places and weak steering currents combined with relatively high low level temperature lapse rates resulted in a day in which wet downbursts were a possibility. The storms during the afternoon of August