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Severe Weather Threatens Red River Radio Listening Area

Courtesy: NWS-Shreveport Office

SEVERE WEATHER –A thunderstorm watch is in effect for the Red River Radio listening area as a line of strong to severe  rainshowers  is moving from the west to east across East Texas. By late morning, much of Southwest Arkansas, Northwest Louisiana, and Deep East Texas will begin to be affected.  According to the National Weather Service-Shreveport:  Areas for the greatest risk for severe weather will be over South Central Arkansas and North Central/Northeast Louisiana  and along the Arkansas-Mississippi  border Wednesday afternoon .    

"Locations like Shreveport, Ruston, Nacthitoches, and up into southwestern Arkansas, Columbia, are all in an enhanced risk," explained Meteorologist Charlie Woodrum with the National Weather Service in Shreveport. "The biggest risk for severe weather is going 

Credit Courtesy: NWS-Shreveport Office
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Courtesy: NWS-Shreveport Office

to be Wednesday afternoon for the ArkLaMiss for El Dorado (Arkansas) and Monroe (Louisiana)."

National Weather Service radar indicated a long band of heavy rain between Tyler and over Longview Texas—Stretching as far southwest as Brenham and to the northeast of DeQueen, Arkansas.

Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' broadcast and media experience to Red River Radio. He began his career as a radio news reporter and transitioned to television journalism and newsmagazine production. Chuck studied mass communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.