1 flash flood, 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 1, 2:07 PM CST, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 307 PM CDT THU JUL 1 2004 .DISCUSSION... STRONG SHORT WAVE ACROSS CENTRAL U.S. INTO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON WITH LEE SURFACE TROF CONTINUING ACROSS WEST TEXAS. THIS WAS GENERATING STRONG LIFT ACROSS EAST TEXAS INTO NORTH LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. EXPECT THIS CONVECTION TO LINGER THROUGH MOST OF THE EVENING...BUT GENERALLY REMAINING SCATTERED IN COVERAGE. CANNOT RULE OUT DEVELOPMENT NEXT FEW HOURS IN NORTHWEST PORTION OF CWA...AS BOUNDARIES FROM OKLAHOMA CONVECTION EARLIER TODAY MOVE SOUTHEAST...BUT A LITTLE LOWER POP THIS AREA. UPPER TROF WILL PERSIST INTO FRIDAY...BUT MAY BE SHIFTED SOME TO EAST. THEN ON SATURDAY THE TROF SHIFTS INTO MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BRINGING THE FORECAST AREA UNDER NORTHWEST FLOW. IN THIS PATTERN...CAN NOT RULE OUT MORE RAIN...BUT FORECAST WILL HINGE ON DEVELOP OF CONVECTION EAST OF THE ROCKIES DURING LATE AFTERNOON HOURS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY... WHICH WOULD TRACK SOUTHEAST. BUT SINCE THIS SCENARIO RATHER DIFFICULT TO PIN DOWN...WILL GO WITH LOW 20 PERCENT POPS...FROM SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. WILL CONTINUE WITH CURRENT DRY FORECAST FOR JULY 4TH AND THEN BRING BACK TYPICAL DIURNAL POPS FOR REMAINDER OF WEEK. MAX TEMPS AGAIN BELOW NORMAL FOR FRIDAY...BUT SHOULD BEGIN INCHING UP WITH MORE SUNSHINE EXPECTED BEGINNING SATURDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 71 88 73 92 / 50 40 20 20 MLU 72 85 71 89 / 50 50 20 20 TXK 71 85 72 92 / 50 50 30 30 TYR 73 89 72 93 / 50 50 20 20 LFK 72 90 72 92 / 50 40 20 20 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 14
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT THU JUL 1 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>167-021100- 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 JUL 1 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AREA WIDE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE A LARGE AMOUNT OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. BECAUSE OF THIS POTENTIAL... LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. ALSO...AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND...CAN NOT BE RULED OUT DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... SEVERAL UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. THIS WILL CONTINUE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH AT LEAST FRIDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
652 PM CDT THU JUL 01 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0545 PM FLASH FLOOD MONROE 32.51N 92.08W
07/01/2004 OUACHITA LA LAW ENFORCEMENT
NUMEROUS STREETS FLOODED.
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22The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 158 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:01 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
3 units of an apartment complex flooded near the intersection of interstate 20 and highway 165.
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, July 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5412577.