1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 29, 2:15 PM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 315 PM CDT THU APR 29 2004 .DISCUSSION... VORTICITY MAX CONTINUES PUSHES NORTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON...BUT CONTINUES TO PRODUCE STRONG TO SEVERE CONVECTION ACROSS NORTHERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS. THIS ACTIVITY WILL SLOWLY EXIT THE AREA DURING THE EVENING HOURS...AS THIS VORTICITY MAX LIFTS AWAY FROM THE AREA. SOME FOG COULD DEVELOP WITH TODAYS RAINFALL...AS SKIES CLEAR OUT A BIT BEHIND THIS CONVECTION AND BEFORE LOW CLOUDS RETURN LATE TONIGHT AS THE LOW LEVEL JET DEVELOPS...BUT WILL NOT MENTION IN ZONES. SOME CONVECTION COULD RETURN FRIDAY...ESPECIALLY IN THE AFTERNOON PRIMARILY DUE TO DAYTIME HEATING COMBINED WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. HOWEVER...THE STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BE WELL NORTH OF THE AREA. WENT SLIGHT CHANCE EVERYWHERE...EXCEPT LOW CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTH...WHERE A WEAK DISTURBANCE...OUT AHEAD OF THE MAIN DISTURBANCE COULD CLIP THE AREA GIVING A TAD MORE LIFT. ANY STORMS THAT DO FORM COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH CAPES BETWEEN 2000 AND 3000 J/KG AND LIFTED INDEXES AROUND -8. A CLOSED LOW ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES WILL WEAKEN AND PHASE WITH NORTHERN STREAM TROUGH LATE FRIDAY. THEN THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS WILL SHIFT INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO ENTER THE NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA LATE FRIDAY NIGHT...AND MOVE THROUGH THE REST OF THE AREA ON SATURDAY. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED NEAR THE FRONT...WITH QUITE A BIT OF POST FRONTAL RAIN BEHIND THE FRONT SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY EVENING...AS THE AREA WILL BE IN THE RIGHT REAR QUADRANT OF A STRONG JET. RAIN SHOULD TAPER OFF LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY NIGHT FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST. THE ETA SLOWS THE FRONT DOWN AND THE DRY AIR PUSH BEHIND...WHILE THE UKMET AND GFS ARE FASTER IN BRINGING THE FRONT THROUGH AND THE CORRESPONDING COOLER AND DRIER. INTRODUCED SLIGHT POPS FOR SUNDAY MORNING ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTH...TO RESPECT THE SLOWER ETA SOLUTION. MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...IS EXPECTED TO BE DRY WITH A GRADUALLY WARMING TREND. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 66 82 67 75 / 10 20 30 70 MLU 64 82 67 78 / 40 20 20 70 TXK 64 82 65 74 / 20 20 50 70 TYR 67 82 66 74 / 0 20 50 70 LFK 67 83 67 77 / 10 30 30 70 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 22
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 130 PM CDT THU APR 29 2004 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-301100- ANGELINA-BIENVILLE-BOSSIER-BOWIE-CADDO-CALDWELL-CAMP-CASS-CHEROKEE- CLAIBORNE-COLUMBIA-DE SOTO-FRANKLIN-GRANT-GREGG-HARRISON-HEMPSTEAD- HOWARD-JACKSON-LA SALLE-LAFAYETTE-LINCOLN-LITTLE RIVER-MARION- MCCURTAIN-MILLER-MORRIS-NACOGDOCHES-NATCHITOCHES-NEVADA-OUACHITA- PANOLA-RED RIVER LA-RED RIVER TX-RUSK-SABINE LA-SABINE TX- SAN AUGUSTINE-SEVIER-SHELBY-SMITH-TITUS-UNION AR-UNION LA-UPSHUR- WEBSTER-WINN-WOOD- 1200 PM CDT THU APR 29 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TRACKING ACROSS THE REGION...WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM DEEP EAST TEXAS INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...INCLUDING NORTHERN LOUISIANA. DAYTIME HEATING COMBINED WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL ALLOW FOR SOME THUNDERSTORMS TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS FROM DEEP EAST TEXAS INTO SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...INCLUDING MUCH OF NORTHERN LOUISIANA. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND EVEN AN ISOLATED TORNADO ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING...BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHIFTS EAST OUT OF THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE PLAINS FRIDAY. THE ASSOCIATED STRONG COLD FRONT...IS EXPECTED TO REACH SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND ADJACENT AREAS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS FRIDAY NIGHT...AND PUSH SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE REST OF THE AREA SATURDAY. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED WITH THIS COLD FRONT AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE AREA...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING FROM DEEP EAST TEXAS INTO SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS INCLUDING NORTH LOUISIANA.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1254 PM CDT THU APR 29 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1225 PM TSTM WND DMG HOMER 32.79N 93.06W
04/29/2004 CLAIBORNE LA LAW ENFORCEMENT
DAMAGE AT CLAIBORNE ACADEMY SCHOOL WITH WINDOWS BLOWN OUT
AND DAMAGE TO GYMNASIUM ROOF. ALSO TREES BLOWN DOWN AND
POSSIBLE TORNADO REPORTED AT WADE CORRECTIONAL CENTER.
&&
VIIIPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
113 PM CDT THU APR 29 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0108 PM HAIL MINDEN 32.62N 93.28W
04/29/2004 0.50 INCH WEBSTER LA TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
VIIIPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
130 PM CDT THU APR 29 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0125 PM HAIL 6 N BENTON 32.78N 93.74W
04/29/2004 0.50 INCH BOSSIER LA AMATEUR RADIO
&&
VIIISPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 224 PM CDT THU APR 29 2004 ARZ073-LAZ003>006-010>014-017>022-TXZ152-153-165>167-300000- ANGELINA-BIENVILLE-CALDWELL-CLAIBORNE-DE SOTO-GRANT-JACKSON-LA SALLE- LINCOLN-NACOGDOCHES-NATCHITOCHES-OUACHITA-RED RIVER LA-SABINE LA- SABINE TX-SAN AUGUSTINE-SHELBY-UNION AR-UNION LA-WEBSTER-WINN- 224 PM CDT THU APR 29 2004 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 124 WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...AND EAST CENTRAL TEXAS...GENERALLY SOUTHEAST OF A SMACKOVER ARKANSAS...TO HAYNESVILLE AND LOGANSPORT LOUISIANA...AND JOAQUIN TO NACOGDOCHES...AND LUFKIN TEXAS LINE... THE TORNADO WATCH DOES NOT INCLUDE CADDO AND BOSSIER PARISHES IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA FROM NEAR EL DORADO ARKANSAS TO ARCADIA...RINGGOLD... AND MANSFIELD LOUISIANA...AND CENTER AND APPLEBY TEXAS. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL TO NEAR A PENNY IN SIZE...STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS TO NEAR 70 MPH...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES...ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. 06
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:20 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds ripped t porch roof from a mobile home between Hanna and Lake End. Large tree also blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, 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: 5388855.