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Police in Ashdown, Arkansas say they have identified a suspect in connection with threats made to the local Walmart store Friday morning.More >>
Police in Ashdown, Arkansas say they have identified a suspect in connection with threats made to a local Walmart store Friday morning.More >>
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Thousands of AEP SWEPCO customers are without power in northwest Louisiana and East Texas following a line of thunderstorms that moved through the area early Thursday afternoon.
There is no word from SWEPCO on the cause of any of the outages. Wind gusts of up to 47 mph were reported at the Shreveport Regional Airport just before 2 p.m., and the storms brought plenty of lightning strikes.
As of 3 p.m., a total of 8,044 customers had no power in Louisiana, including 3,500 in DeSoto Parish. Another 1,400 are in the dark in East Texas.
The National Weather Service has done surveys on the wind damage from storms near Blanchard, Louisiana and around Sydney Street in the Martin Luther King neighborhood of Shreveport. They determined this damage to be the result of "MicroBurst" winds. This is the result of rain-cooled air accelerating downward. In a storms and spreading out at a destructive speed when it hits the ground.More >>
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a normal hurricane season with the possibility of nine to 15 named storms in the Atlantic and 12 to 18 named storms in the Pacific Ocean.More >>
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a normal hurricane season with the possibility of nine to 15 named storms in the Atlantic and 12 to 18 named storms in the Pacific Ocean.More >>
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Friday, May 17 2013 2:05 AM EDT2013-05-17 06:05:56 GMT
Experts say it's not a matter of if a deadly tornado will hit the Hub City again, but when. KCBD set out to fact check everything we've been told to in an emergency and what we found, may surprise you.More >>
Experts say it's not a matter of if a deadly tornado will hit the Hub City again, but when. KCBD set out to fact check common advice about what to do in an emergency and found that some of what we've been told just isn't true. More >>
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a normal hurricane season with the possibility of nine to 15 named storms in the Atlantic and 12 to 18 named storms in the Pacific Ocean.More >>
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a normal hurricane season with the possibility of nine to 15 named storms in the Atlantic and 12 to 18 named storms in the Pacific Ocean.More >>
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