6 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 6 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 31, 9:25 PM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 925 PM CST SUN OCT 31 2004 AREAS OF RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING. CURRENT FLASH FLOOD WATCH LOOKS GOOD AS THIS IS THE AREA WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL IS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT 15 HOURS OR SO. 100 POPS LOOK GOOD EVERYWHERE OVERNIGHT. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN NEARLY STEADY THE REST OF THE NIGHT. THE INTENSITY OF THE RAIN WILL DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST MONDAY BUT MAY SEE AN INCREASE IN THE RAIN AGAIN MONDAY EVENING AS THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM DRAWS CLOSER. IT IS LIKELY THAT POPS WILL NEED TO BE RAISED CONSIDERABLY IN THE LATER PERIODS WITH THE NEXT FORECAST ISSUANCE IF THE CURRENT TRENDS IN THE MODEL DATA PERSIST. ADJUSTED WINDS TONIGHT AND MONDAY TO ACCOUNT FOR A SLOWER FRONTAL PASSAGE. UPDATE COMING SHORTLY. FORECAST ID= 05 .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL NOON CST MONDAY FOR ZONES ARZ001>002... ARZ010>011...ARZ019>020...ARZ029. OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL NOON CST MONDAY FOR ZONES OKZ049... OKZ053...OKZ063...OKZ068>076. PLATE
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1210 PM CST SUN OCT 31 2004 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-011100- ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK- CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK- LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK- OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK- PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK- WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR- 1210 PM CST SUN OCT 31 2004 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS... THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. FLASH FLOOD. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. HEAVY RAIN. RISK...SIGNIFICANT. AREA... EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ONSET...ONGOING. AREA AT GREATEST RISK...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. RISK...SIGNIFICANT. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS . ONSET...ONGOING . DISCUSSION... A SIGNIFICANT RAIN EVENT CONTINUES TO DEVELOP AT MID DAY WITH A LARGE AREA OF RAIN...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER OKLAHOMA. A SURFACE WARM FRONT WAS ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS AND EXTENDED WESTWARD NEAR THE OKLAHOMA...KANSAS BORDER. AT NOON A LARGE SWATH OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG THE INTERSTATE 44 CORRIDOR FROM THE MISSOURI BORDER TO THE OKLAHOMA CITY AREA AND SOUTHWESTWARD INTO TEXAS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS THIS MORNING IN THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AREA HAVE RANGED FROM A TENTH OF AN INCH TO OVER 2 INCHES. ADDITIONAL RAIN ON SATURATED GROUND CAN QUICKLY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. FAVORABLE UPPER JET DYNAMICS WILL RESULT IN LARGE AREAS OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL TRAIN ACROSS SATURATED GROUND... WHICH MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING AND/OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WHERE BEST LIFT AND MOISTURE AXIS ARE IN PLACE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS THIS AFTERNOON AND THROUGH THE NIGHT COULD BE AS MUCH AS 2 TO 4 ADDITIONAL INCHES OVER THE WATCH AREA. .SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT GROUPS...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AREA SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND DISCUSSIONS. ALSO...CHANGES IN MODEL GUIDANCE OR RAINFALL TRENDS MAY WARRANT A NORTHWARD EXPANSION OF THE CURRENT FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. TUESDAY...NO HAZARDS. WEDNESDAY...NO HAZARDS. THURSDAY...NO HAZARDS. FRIDAY...NO HAZARDS. SATURDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... ONGOING RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO MONDAY. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THE HEAVY RAIN THREAT WILL DIMINISH MONDAY AFTERNOON AS DEEP MOISTURE GETS PUSHED EAST BY A COLDFRONT THAT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. AREAS OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN ARE EXPECTED INTO TUESDAY AS THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS MOVES EAST OF THE AREA AT THAT TIME. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING STATEMENT... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND DISCUSSIONS REGARDING HEAVY RAIN/FLOOD POTENTIAL ON MONDAY. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL INFORMATION
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1223 AM CST MON NOV 01 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1150 PM FLOOD MUSKOGEE 35.75N 95.37W
10/31/2004 MUSKOGEE OK LAW ENFORCEMENT
SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED/IMPASSABLE.
1150 PM FLOOD CHECOTAH 35.47N 95.52W
10/31/2004 MCINTOSH OK LAW ENFORCEMENT
SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED IN THE CITY OF CHECOTAH.
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
138 AM CST MON NOV 01 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0130 AM FLOOD TAHLEQUAH 35.92N 94.97W
11/01/2004 CHEROKEE OK LAW ENFORCEMENT
WATER COVERED SEVERAL ROADWAYS IN AND NEAR TAHLEQUAH.
&&The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:57 UTC.
6 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy thunderstorm rains caused flooding of roads across Benton County. Flooded roads included Highway 59B near Gentry and local roads near Pea Ridge, Bentonville, Cave Springs and Maysville.Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport near Highfill received 4.04 inches of rain during the event.
Heavy thunderstorm rains caused a few county roads to be washed out across Carroll County.
Heavy thunderstorm rains caused numerous bridges to be flooded on county roads across all of Madison County.
Heavy thunderstorm rains caused a few roads to be flooded between Ozark and Altus in the southeast part of Franklin County.
Heavy thunderstorm rains caused flooding on Gun Club Road near Barling.
Heavy thunderstorm rains caused a bridge to be under water between Dyer and Kibler.
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, November 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: 5428970, 5428971, 5428972, 5428973, 5428974, 5428975.