1 funnel cloud, 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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 24, 10:00 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 1100 AM CDT FRI JUN 24 2004 ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND EAST-CENTRAL LOUISIANA THROUGH TONIGHT... .DISCUSSION... MOSAIC RADAR IMAGERY CONTINUE TO SHOW A LARGE AREA OF RAIN FROM SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI TO JUST SOUTH OF HOUSTON WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ON THE LEADING EDGE...MORE NUMEROUS OVER GULF. THREE HOUR RAINFALL TOTALS...FROM 8 AM TO 11 AM...WERE UP TO 1.5 TO 1.8 INCHES NORTHWEST OF BATON ROUGE. THE MODERATE RAINFALL...HEAVY RAINFALL ON THE LEADING EDGE...HAS NOT CAUSED ANY WIDESPREAD FLOODING PROBLEMS YET. VISIBLE SATELLITE REVEALED A DENSE CANOPY OF CLOUDS OVER THE REST OF THE FORECAST AREA. WILL HAVE TO LOWER AFTERNOON HIGHS WITH THIS UPDATE PACKAGE. IN ADDITION...WILL CONTINUE FLOOD WATCH FOR NOW. && PRELIMINARY POINT NUMBERS... MCB 78 69 85 70 / 90 70 70 60 BTR 77 71 85 72 / + 70 80 60 MSY 83 73 87 73 / + 60 80 60 GPT 84 72 87 75 / + 60 80 70 && .LIX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...FLOOD WATCH LAZ034>040-046>050-056>70 THROUGH TONIGHT. MS...FLOOD WATCH MSZ068>071-077-080>082 THROUGH TONIGHT. LA AND MS COASTAL WATERS...NONE. && 18
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 120 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2004 LAZ034>038-046>050-056-MSZ068>070-251200- AMITE-ASCENSION-ASSUMPTION-EAST BATON ROUGE-EAST FELICIANA-IBERVILLE- LIVINGSTON-PIKE-POINTE COUPEE-ST HELENA-TANGIPAHOA-WEST BATON ROUGE- WEST FELICIANA-WILKINSON- 120 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... .FLOODING... A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR POTENTIAL RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS BETWEEN TWO AND FOUR INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS TO SIX INCHES. .THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE REMAINS A CHANCE THAT HEAVY RAINS WILL PERSIST THROUGH FRIDAY. THE MAIN WEATHER PATTERN WILL CHANGE SLOWLY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...IS REQUESTED AT THIS TIME. THE PRIMARY RESPONSE WILL BE FOR FLOOD MONITORING AND NOTIFICATION. PROMPTLY RELAY ANY OBSERVED OR REPORTED STORM DAMAGE...FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAZ039-040-057>070-MSZ071-077-080>082-251200- HANCOCK-HARRISON-JACKSON-LOWER JEFFERSON-LOWER LAFOURCHE- LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE-ORLEANS- PEARL RIVER-ST CHARLES-ST JAMES-ST JOHN THE BAPTIST-ST TAMMANY- UPPER JEFFERSON-UPPER LAFOURCHE-UPPER PLAQUEMINES-UPPER ST BERNARD- UPPER TERREBONNE-WALTHALL-WASHINGTON- 120 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... .THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WITH RATES 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. .MARINE... WATERSPOUT DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE IN THE NEAR COASTAL WATERS THROUGH 3 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE WILL BE A BETTER THAN AVERAGE CHANCE AT THUNDERSTORM FRIDAY. EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...IS REQUESTED AT THIS TIME. PROMPTLY RELAY OF ANY OBSERVED OR REPORTED FLOODING OR STORM DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A funnel cloud was observed along Interstate 59 just north of McNeill.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, June 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: 5407305.