2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 13, 8:14 PM CST, 41 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 914 PM CDT THU MAY 13 2004 .DISCUSSION... COLD FRONT STILL WELL WEST OF AREA...WITH NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER ABOUT WESTERN HALF OF CWA. PRECIPITATION TOTALS FOR LAST 12 HOURS OF 2-3 INCHES ACROSS THIS AREA. PRECIPITABLE WATER AT LIT AT 00Z WAS 1.76 WITH LI OF -5 AND CAPE OF 2000. STILL PLENTY OF ENERGY FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW. PATH OF LEAST REGRET IS TO HOIST FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 6 PM FRIDAY FOR WESTERN HALF OF AREA. FORECAST UPDATE AND WATCH ALREADY OUT. MINOR CHANGES TO GRIDS OUTSIDE OF WATCH...MAINLY TO UPDATE TEMPERATURE AND WIND CURVES OVERNIGHT. && .MEG...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 6 PM FRIDAY. MS...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 6 PM FRIDAY WEST OF A HERNANDO TO CHARLESTON LINE. MO...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 6 PM FRIDAY. TN...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 6 PM FRIDAY ALONG AND WEST OF UNION CITY TO MEMPHIS LINE. && WAGNER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 430 AM CDT THU MAY 13 2004 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-141100- ALCORN-BENTON-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-COAHOMA- CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DECATUR-DESOTO-DUNKLIN-DYER- FAYETTE-GIBSON-GREENE-HARDEMAN-HARDIN-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-HENRY- ITAWAMBA-LAFAYETTE-LAKE-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEE(AR)-LEE(MS)-MADISON- MARSHALL-MCNAIRY-MISSISSIPPI-MONROE-OBION-PANOLA-PEMISCOT-PHILLIPS- POINSETT-PONTOTOC-PRENTISS-QUITMAN-RANDOLPH-SHELBY-ST. FRANCIS- TALLAHATCHIE-TATE-TIPPAH-TIPTON-TISHOMINGO-TUNICA-UNION-WEAKLEY- YALOBUSHA- 430 AM CDT THU MAY 13 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE... THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL EXIST TODAY AND TONIGHT. HOWEVER...THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NUMEROUS ON FRIDAY AND INTO FRIDAY NIGHT AHEAD OF AN ADVANCING COLD FRONT. ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MEG. SWC
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several streets were flooded.
One road was flooded.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, May 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5395745, 5395746.