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CLIMATE REPORT...UPDATED FOR TEXT SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
410 AM CDT SAT JUN 14 2025

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...THE SHREVEPORT CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF MAY 2025...

CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD: 1991 TO 2020
CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD: 1874 TO 2025

WEATHER         OBSERVED          NORMAL  DEPART
                VALUE   DATE(S)   VALUE   FROM
                                          NORMAL
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TEMPERATURE (F)
RECORD
 HIGH            102   05/31/1998
 LOW              39   05/04/2013
HIGHEST           96   05/20
LOWEST            53   05/05
MEAN            77.0               74.0     3.0
DAYS MAX >= 90    14
DAYS MIN <= 32     0

PRECIPITATION (INCHES)
TOTALS          8.89               4.46    4.43
DAYS >= .01       16
DAYS >= .50        3
DAYS >= 1.00       3
GREATEST
 24 HR. TOTAL   3.28   05/26 TO 05/26


DEGREE DAYS
HEATING TOTAL      2                  8      -6
COOLING TOTAL    383                288      95
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WIND (MPH)
AVERAGE WIND SPEED              6.9
HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION    48/200    DATE  05/02
HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION    MM        DATE   MM


WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH
THUNDERSTORM              8     FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE      1

-  INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.
R  INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.
MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.
T  INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.

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WEATHERWISE DURING MAY 2025, SHREVEPORT RECORDED ABOVE NORMAL
TEMPERATURES AND ABOVE NORMAL RAINFALL. SHREVEPORT TIED FOR THE 11TH
WARMEST MAY ON RECORD WITH 1996, 1949, AND 1887 WITH AN AVERAGE MONTHLY
TEMPERATURE OF 77.0 DEGREES, BEHIND THE RECORD WARMEST MAY OF 78.7 DEGREES
SET JUST LAST YEAR IN 2024. SHREVEPORT ALSO RANKED AS THE 19TH WETTEST MAY
ON RECORD WITH A TOTAL OF 8.89 INCHES, SEVERAL INCHES BEHIND THE RECORD
WETTEST MAY OF 1884 WHERE 14.47 INCHES OF RAIN WAS OBSERVED. A DAILY RECORD
HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS SET ON THE 20TH WITH A TEMPERATURE OF 96 DEGREES, WITH
DAILY RECORD HIGHEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURES ALSO SET ON THE 16TH AND 17TH WITH
78 AND 79 DEGREES RECORDED, RESPECTIVELY. THE 79 DEGREE LOW TEMPERATURE
OBSERVED ON THE 17TH ALSO TIED WITH MAY 27TH, 1996 AS THE WARMEST LOW
TEMPERATURE ON RECORD FOR THE MONTH OF MAY. DAILY RECORD RAINFALL TOTALS WERE
ALSO SET ON THE 2ND AND 26TH WHERE 2.85 INCHES AND 3.28 INCHES WERE OBSERVED,
RESPECTIVELY.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED ACROSS SOUTHEAST SHREVEPORT AND SOUTH
BOSSIER CITY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS OF MAY 1ST,
WHERE QUARTER TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL FELL OFF OF NORRIS FERRY ROAD IN
SOUTHEAST SHREVEPORT, WITH HAIL AS LARGE AS GOLFBALLS FALLING ACROSS SOUTH
BOSSIER CITY. THESE STORMS ALSO PRODUCED A 64 MPH WIND GUST AT THE SHREVEPORT
REGIONAL AIRPORT, WITH SCATTERED REPORTS OF TREES AND POWER LINES ALSO DOWNED
ACROSS THE CITY. A FEW REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING WERE ALSO RECEIVED,
PARTICULARLY ALONG I-20 AND PINES ROAD, PINES ROAD AND WEST 70TH STREET, I-20
AT LINWOOD AVENUE, AS WELL AS THE RAILROAD OVERPASS ON HEARNE AVENUE JUST
SOUTH OF MIDWAY AVENUE AND ALONG YOUREE DRIVE NEAR KINGS HIGHWAY AND NEAR
EAST WASHINGTON STREET. IN FACT, A SCHOOL BUS STALLED IN HIGH WATER ALONG
YOUREE DRIVE NEAR EAST WASHINGTON STREET, WITH A HIGH WATER RESCUE NEEDED
FOR THE DRIVER AND CHILDREN ON THE BUS. FLASH FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED
THROUGHOUT CENTRAL AND SOUTH BOSSIER CITY, WHERE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2-3 INCHES
WERE OBSERVED IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.

ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED ON THE 6TH, WHERE QUARTER SIZE
HAIL FELL NEAR NORTHWOOD HIGH SCHOOL IN BLANCHARD, WITH THE GREATEST
CONCENTRATION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH
SHREVEPORT. IN THIS CASE, A NEARLY 13 MILE LONG TRACK EF-1 TORNADO WITH
MAXIMUM ESTIMATED WINDS NEAR 105 MPH TOUCHED DOWN IN FAR SOUTHWEST CADDO
PARISH JUST NORTHEAST OF JOHN`S GIN ROAD, AND TRACKED NORTHEAST THROUGH THE
SPRING RIDGE COMMUNITY INTO SOUTHWEST SHREVEPORT, WITH MULTIPLE TREES SNAPPED
AND UPROOTED IN THE NEWCASTLE SUBDIVISION OFF OF BERT KOUNS INDUSTRIAL LOOP.
SOME OF THESE TREES LANDED ON A COUPLE OF HOMES IN THIS AREA, WITH THE TORNADO
TRACKING ACROSS DEAN ROAD AND THROUGH A RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION BEHIND
SOUTHWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, SNAPPING ADDITIONAL TREES BEFORE FINALLY LIFTING ALONG
MACKEY LANE SHORTLY BEFORE REACHING SUMMER GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH. THESE STORMS
ALSO PRODUCED FLASH FLOODING THROUGHOUT SHREVEPORT AS WELL, WHERE RAINFALL
AMOUNTS TOTALED BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. FLASH
FLOODING WAS AGAIN OBSERVED THROUGHOUT SHREVEPORT AND BOSSIER CITY ON THE
26TH, WITH VARIOUS ROADWAYS COVERED IN HIGH WATER WHERE RAINFALL TOTALS RANGED
FROM 3-5 INCHES.

FOR THE CLIMATOLOGICAL SPRING (MARCH-MAY) OF 2025, SHREVEPORT SET THE
WARMEST SPRING ON RECORD WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 71.3 DEGREES, WHICH
WAS 5.0 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS SURPASSED THE PREVIOUS RECORD WARMEST
SPRING SET JUST LAST YEAR IN 2024, WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 71.1 DEGREES.
SHREVEPORT ALSO SET THE 12TH WETTEST SPRING ON RECORD AS WELL WITH A TOTAL OF
22.60 INCHES, WELL BEHIND THE RECORD WETTEST SPRING OF 1991 WHERE 35.44 INCHES
OF RAIN WAS OBSERVED. THIS MOST RECENT WET SPRING FELL JUST BEHIND THE SPRING
OF 2024, WHERE 28.39 INCHES WAS OBSERVED, BUT WAS THE 5TH SUCH SPRING SINCE
2000 WITH AT LEAST 22.50 INCHES OF RAIN HAVING FALLEN (2000, 2015, 2016, AND
2024).

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