National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

The month of June was quite soggy across the four-state region. Rainfall generally ranged between 8 and 12 inches. A dry day across the area was hard to come by as the weather pattern was quite persistent. An unusually strong and almost stationary upper low across southeast Canada pushed cold fronts unusually far to the south. These fronts would move into the Lower Mississippi Valley and stall out before reaching the coast. In addition, a persistent weak trough was located across Texas for most of June cut off from the main flow. These features combined with a very moist and unstable atmosphere to make for one of the wettest Junes on record. A few daily rainfall and coolest high records were actually set during the month.

	Shreveport	Monroe	Texarkana
Wettest June	17.11 in 1989	11.45 in 1989	12.24 in 1905
2nd wettest June	15.73 in 1993	11.21 in 1950	10.31 in 1945
3rd	14.67 in 1986	11.09 in 2004	10.19 in 1898
4th	12.42 in 2004	10.18 in 2004	9.57 in 1976
5th	12.39 in 1961	8.64 in 1982	9.48 in 2004

	Tyler	Lufkin	Longview
Wettest June	9.71 in 2003	14.02 in 1989	14.41 in 1993
2nd wettest June	9.43 in 1960	12.86 in 2001	11.92 in 1973
3rd	9.36 in 1973	12.32 in 2004	11.56 in 1989
4th	9.05 in 2004	11.19 in 1973	10.66 in 1957
5th	8.11 in 2001	9.03 in 1986	9.52 in 2004

	El Dorado, AR
Wettest June	15.60 in 1986
2nd wettest June	15.04 in 1974
3rd	12.94 in 2004
4th	11.55 in 1989
5th	10.44 in 1982

The first couple of days of June saw widespread damage from winds and some hail by a few complexes of storms moving through the area. These thunderstorms also put down some heavy rainfall. Almost daily rainfall from late May through early June saturated the ground setting up the possibility of flash flooding. Some flooding was observed, mainly in urban, low lying or poor drainage areas when thunderstorms moved very little or moved over the same area for hours at a time. River flooding was kept to a minimum. However, rivers such as the Glover River in southeast Oklahoma would rise 6 to 8 feet over a few hours due to the excessive rainfall.