5 tornado, 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 Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 13, 2:00 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 300 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 UPDATE...SITUATION EVOLVING QUICKLY AS ONE CAN IMAGINE. HAVE BEEN RAPIDLY UPDATING PRODUCTS/WARNINGS. LATEST CHANGE IN THE PUBLIC PRODUCTS WILL BE TO EXTEND THE FLOOD WATCH THROUGH SATURDAY FOR ALL OF ECFL. EXPECT WINDY CONDITIONS TO SLOWLY SUBSIDE DURING THE DAY...WITH POTENTIAL FOR TRAINING ECHOES TYPE HEAVY RAIN EVENT. THIS WILL NOT HELP WITH WHATEVER CLEANUP EFFORTS WILL BE ONGOING FROM HURRICANE CHARLEY. REFER TO LOCAL STATEMENTS AND ADVISORIES FROM NWS MELBOURNE AND THE NHC FOR EXTENSIVE TREATEMENT OF TONIGHTS RAPIDLY DETERIORATING WX. && .MLB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ...HURRICANE WARNING COASTAL VOLUSIA...NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTIES AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. ...TROPICAL STORM WARNING SOUTHERN BREVARD...INDIAN RIVER...SAINT LUCIE...MARTIN COUNTIES AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. ...INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING FOR LAKE...VOLUSIA...ORANGE... SEMINOLE...OSCEOLA...OKEECHOBEE COUNTIES. ...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 800 PM SATURDAY ALL COUNTIES. ...TORNADO WATCH ALL COUNTIES THROUGH 200 AM SATURDAY... SHORT TERM...CRISTALDI LONG TERM....BRAGAW HAZARDS......PENDERGRAST/LASCODY/HAGEMEYER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 340 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 AMZ550-555-570-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141-144-147- 141100- COASTAL VOLUSIA-COCOA BEACH TO JUPITER INLET 20 NM TO 60 NM OFFSHORE- COCOA BEACH TO JUPITER INLET OUT TO 20 NM- FLAGLER BEACH TO COCOA BEACH 20 NM TO 60 NM OFFSHORE- FLAGLER BEACH TO COCOA BEACH OUT TO 20 NM-INDIAN RIVER- INLAND VOLUSIA-MARTIN-NORTHERN BREVARD-NORTHERN LAKE-OKEECHOBEE- ORANGE-OSCEOLA-SEMINOLE-SOUTHERN BREVARD-SOUTHERN LAKE-ST. LUCIE- 340 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT.... FOR DETAILED INFORMATION REGARDING WEATHER HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANE CHARLEY AND THE EXPECTED IMPACTS TO EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA OVERNIGHT...PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA THROUGH SATURDAY AS THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN WILL LINGER BEHIND DEPARTING HURRICANE CHARLEY. CRISTALDI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1143 AM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 FLZ058-131645- OKEECHOBEE- 1143 AM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 ...RAINBAND SQUALLS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH MOVING TOWARD OKEECHOBEE COUNTY... AT 1143 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAINBAND SQUALLS MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH ACROSS LAKE OKEECHOBEE. THESE SQUALLS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING OVER THE NORTH SHORE OF LAKE OKEECHOBEE INCLUDING THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE. IF THE STORMS STRENGTHEN FURTHER...A WARNING WILL BE ISSUED. JP
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 315 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 FLZ041-045-046-141-132015- COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-INLAND VOLUSIA COUNTY-ORANGE-SEMINOLE- 315 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 ...STRONG STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH OVER EAST CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY...EASTERN SEMINOLE COUNTY...CENTRAL VOLUSIA COUNTY... AT 313 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WIND GUSTS 7 MILES SOUTH OF CHRISTMAS...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. IN ADDITION...A SECOND STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST OSCEOLA COUNTY AND WILL FOLLOW DIRECTLY IN ITS PATH. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM WHICH MAY EXPERIENCE STRONG WINDS INCLUDE MIDWAY...SANFORD...AND DELTONA. IF THE STORM STRENGTHENS FURTHER...A WARNING WILL BE ISSUED. BRAGAW
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
An F0 tornado touched down briefly blowing over a few landscape trees in the community of Harmony. The event was witnessed by local residents.
An F1 tornado associated with an outer rainband of Hurricane Charley touched down South Daytona Beach destroying one home and damaging eight others, mostly due to fallen trees. The roof was torn off a strip mall store and a service station fire was started when the tornado destroyed two gas pumps and the canopy over the service island.
A waterspout associated with the outer rainbands of Hurricane Charley moved off the Atlantic over Daytona Beach Shores and tore the roof off a home on the barrier island injuring an elderly woman.
A tornado-like area of wind damage cut across the community of Narcossee blowing down hundreds of trees in a well defined path associated with the inner rain bands of Hurricane Charley. There were numerous other areas of smilar damage extending across northwest Osceola, Orange and Seminole counties.
A tornado-like area of wind damage cut across Highway 192 near Old Melbourne Highway, east of St. Cloud, blowing down hundreds of trees in a well defined path associated with the inner rain bands of Hurricane Charley. There were numerous other areas of smilar damage extending across northwest Osceola, Orange and Seminole counties.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 2004Warnings in Florida, August 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: 5421961, 5421962, 5421963, 5421964, 5421965.