1 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 4, 9:05 AM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1005 AM EDT WED AUG 4 2004 .DISCUSSION...LATEST ACARS SOUNDINGS OUT OF ORLANDO CONTINUE TO SHOW A TROPICAL AIR MASS IN PLACE. WARM MID-LEVEL TEMPERATURES WILL RESULT IN AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN THIS AFTERNOON ALONG WITH OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. SEA BREEZE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE INHIBITED SOUTH OF DAB DUE TO THE STRONGER WESTERLY FLOW IN THE LOWEST FEW THOUSAND FEET OF THE ATMOSPHERE. DESPITE THE LACK OF ADDITIONAL CONVERGENCE ALONG MUCH OF THE EAST COAST...INSTABILITY WILL AIDED BY NEARLY FULL SUN AND ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE THIS MORNING. DEEPEST MOISTURE WILL BE ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ZONES. CURRENT GRIDS OF LIKELY POPS SOUTH...CHANCE NORTH ARE IN GOOD SHAPE AND NO UPDATE IS PLANNED. && .MARINE...CURRENT MARINE FORECAST ON TRACK. NO SIG CHANGES AT MID MORNING UPDATE. MAIN MARINE CONCERNS WILL BE LOCALLY HIGHER WINDS AND SEAS WITH TSTMS MOVING OFFSHORE THIS AFTERNOON IN MOIST WESTERLY FLOW. && .MLB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...HIRSCH LONG TERM...HAGEMEYER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 500 AM EDT WED AUG 4 2004 AMZ550-555-570-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141-144-147- 042000- 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- 500 AM EDT WED AUG 4 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE... ...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT... PERSISTENCE OF DEEP LAYER MOISTURE WILL AGAIN ALLOW STORMS TO SPREAD EAST ACROSS THE PENINSULA FROM THE GULF TODAY. STORM COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO BE SCATTERED ACROSS THE NORTHERN SECTIONS...AND EVEN MORE NUMEROUS IN THE SOUTH. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM STORMS WILL BE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. MOVE INDOORS AT THE FIRST SIGN OF A STORM. ...FLOOD IMPACT... THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP IN THIS TROPICAL AIR MASS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED RECENT HEAVY RAINS OR IN AREAS WHERE MORE THAN ONE ROUND OF RAINFALL MOVES THROUGH. STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF DROPPING TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. ...MARINE THUNDERSTORM GUST IMPACT... SCATTERED STORMS WILL MOVE FROM THE MAINLAND ACROSS THE INTRACOASTAL AND ATLANTIC WATERS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS UP TO 35 KNOTS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. MARINERS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE WEST AND BE PREPARED TO GET TO SAFE HARBOR BEFORE THE STORMS ARE IMMINENT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... MOISTURE LEVELS AND STORM COVERAGE WILL REMAIN HIGH ON THURSDAY THEN DECREASE HEADING INTO THE WEEKEND. A BELOW NORMAL COVERAGE OF STORMS IS EXPECTED OVER THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. GLITTO
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 9 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:49 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
An F0 tornado touched down briefy about a block from the ocean in Indialantic. The tornado blew down fences and porch awnings.
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: 5421957.