Storm reports for March 2, 2023

At 12:37 p.m. CST, golf ball size hail, 1.75 inches across, fell in Miami, Oklahoma, damaging vehicles, homes and businesses.¹ At 5:35 p.m. CST an EF1 tornado with winds near 100 mph crossed about 4.8 miles of Shreveport, Louisiana, damaging 98 single-family homes and four businesses.² Homes lost shingles, siding, chimneys and windows. Along Youree Drive, four commercial buildings had roof damage and one had a wall collapse. Two people were hurt, and NOAA's Storm Events Database lists $50 million in property damage.²

In the Fort Worth area, an 80 mph gust was measured at North Tarrant Parkway and Riverside Drive in Fort Worth at 5:55 p.m. CST. Around 6 p.m., wind damaged new and unfinished homes in North Richland Hills and tore the roof off an apartment building in Hurst.^3,4,5 At 6:15 p.m. CST, gusts estimated near 90 mph damaged metal roofing on several rows of boat docks at a marina on the southeast corner of Lake Lewisville. NOAA's Storm Events Database lists $2 million in property damage there.⁶ Around 7:30 p.m. CST, wind damaged multiple buildings in downtown Greenville, Texas.⁷

At 10:50 p.m. CST an EF2 tornado with 135 mph winds hit just north of Kirby in Pike County, Arkansas, destroying mobile homes and injuring 5 people.⁸ The emergency manager reported 20 to 30 homes in and around Kirby damaged or destroyed, and NOAA's Storm Events Database lists $6 million in property damage there.⁹