1 rip current, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 26, 1:55 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
255 PM EDT MON APR 26 2004
.SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY).
HAD TO LOWER POPS AND USHER THEM OUT OF THE CWFA A LITTLE EARLIER
PER RADAR TRENDS AND MODEL PROGS. AFTER THE COLD FRONT CLEARS
OUR CWFA TUESDAY MORNING...WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT A QUIET COUPLE OF
DAYS WITH DRIER AND COOLER THAN NORMAL CONDITIONS EXPECTED.
.LONG TERM...(THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY).
USING 06Z GFS AS A GUIDE...EXPECT THURSDAY TO ALSO BE DRY WITH SOME
FOG POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT AS A WARM FRONT LIFTS N. 26/00Z EXTENDED
GFS IS FASTER WITH THE NEXT APPROACHING FRONT SATURDAY THAN THE
25/00Z RUN. ECMWF LOOKS SIMILAR TO THE 26/00Z GFS...BUT DRIER.
RETURN FLOW AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM LOOKS LIMITED WITH SHORT
TRAJECTORIES OVER THE GULF. WILL RAISE POPS SATURDAY...AND KEEP
CHANCE POPS THROUGH SUNDAY. HPC FRONTAL POSITION HAS FRONT THROUGH
THE CWFA BY 12Z MONDAY. MOST GFS ENSEMBLE MEMBERS PLACE UPPER TROUGH
AXIS DOWNSTREAM FROM OUR CWFA BY MONDAY...SO WILL TAPER POPS
ACCORDINGLY ON THAT DAY.
&&
.MARINE...WINDS WERE NEAR SCA LEVELS AT BUOY 42039 AS A MESOLOW
DEVELOPED JUST W OF THERE. EXPECT WINDS AHEAD OF THE FRONT TO
DECREASE IN THE SHORT TERM...PER RUC WIND PROGS. HAVE NOT ISSUED A
SCA TUESDAY MORNING BEHIND THE FRONT. WENT WITH SCEC INSTEAD...
ALTHOUGH IT WILL BE CLOSE AND SUBSEQUENT SHIFTS WILL NEED TO MONITOR
THIS.
&&
.FIRE WEATHER...RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BEHIND THE FRONT WILL BE QUITE
LOW BEHIND THE FRONT FOR THE NEXT COUPLE AFTERNOONS...REQUIRING
WARNINGS AND WATCHES FOR MUCH OF OUR AREA (SEE WATCH/WARNING/ADVISORY
SECTION BELOW FOR DETAILS).
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
TLH 58 78 44 80 / 40 00 00 00
PFN 60 79 50 77 / 30 00 00 00
DHN 54 77 46 78 / 20 00 00 00
ABY 55 76 45 77 / 30 00 00 00
VLD 59 77 45 79 / 40 00 00 00
CTY 63 79 45 80 / 60 10 00 00
&&
.TAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AL...NONE.
GA...RED FLAG WARNING TUESDAY AFTERNOON ALL ZONES.
FIRE WEATHER WATCH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ALL ZONES.
FL...RED FLAG WARNING TUESDAY AFTERNOON ALL ZONES.
FIRE WEATHER WATCH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ALL ZONES.
&&
TJTHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 500 AM EDT MON APR 26 2004 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-GMZ750- 755-770-775-270900- BAKER GA-BAY FL-BEN HILL GA-BERRIEN GA-BROOKS GA-CALHOUN GA- CALHOUN FL-CLAY GA-COASTAL WALTON FL-COFFEE AL-COLQUITT GA-COOK GA- DALE AL-DECATUR GA-DIXIE FL-DOUGHERTY GA-EARLY GA-FRANKLIN FL- GADSDEN FL-GENEVA AL-GRADY GA-GULF FL-HENRY AL-HOLMES FL-HOUSTON AL- INLAND WALTON FL-IRWIN GA-JACKSON FL-JEFFERSON FL-LAFAYETTE FL- LANIER GA-LEE GA-LEON FL-LIBERTY FL-LOWNDES GA-MADISON FL-MILLER GA- MITCHELL GA-QUITMAN GA-RANDOLPH GA-SEMINOLE GA-TAYLOR FL-TERRELL GA- THOMAS GA-TIFT GA-TURNER GA-WAKULLA FL-WASHINGTON FL-WORTH GA- 500 AM EDT MON APR 26 2004 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND EASTERN PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE... A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM TO THE WEST WILL MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD TODAY AND TONIGHT...WITH ITS ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE REGION BY TUESDAY MORNING. THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA...PRODUCING WIDESPREAD RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES...WITH UP TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE IN SOME LOCATIONS. OTHER THAN THE HEAVY RAINFALL...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... HIGH PRESSURE WILL USHER IN COOLER AND DRIER AIR FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...WITH A SLOW WARMING TREND BY THE END OF THE WEEK. THE NEXT COLD FRONT AND CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL APPROACH THE AREA BY SATURDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY...AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE VIA OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TLH/ OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS. 17-GOULD
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1154 AM EDT MON APR 26 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1030 AM TORNADO OAK GROVE 31.09N 85.78W
04/26/2004 GENEVA AL EMERGENCY MNGR
POSSIBLE TORNADO BLEW TRUCK OFF ROAD. FUNNEL SIGHTED IN
VICINITY.
&&
TJTThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A man drowned attempting to rescue his wife and son from a rip current. Reported by the Walton County Sheriff.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Walton | 2004-04-26 | 56 | Male | In Water | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, April 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: 5390340.