1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 3, 2:00 PM CST, 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 300 PM CDT THU JUN 03 2004 .DISCUSSION... SCATTERED TSTMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY THIS AFTERNOON IN THE LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ZONE IN SE LA-COASTAL MS. ISOLATED TSTMS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE FORM OF POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL AND DOWNBURST TYPE WINDS. S/W TROUGH WHICH TRIGGERED THE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND TSTMS LATE LAST NIGHT AND EARLY THIS MONRING HAS MOVED RAPIDLY SEWD INTO THE GULF. SATELLITE AND RADAR AT MID-AFTERNOON DOES NOT INDICATE ANY ADDITIONAL S/W TROUGHS COMING SEWD IN THE NW FLOW TONIGHT WHICH MIGHT BRING NIT-TIME TSTM ACTIVITY. AS A MATTER OF FACT SOME NVA AND WARMING ALOFT MAY INHIBIT TSTM ACTIVITY ON FRIDAY AND FRI NIGHT. HOWEVER ADDITIONAL POCKETS OF ENGERGY OVER THE WEEKEND DTHRU MID-WEEK SHOULD BRING TSTMS ACTIVITY BACK TO CLIMAT LEVELS OF 30 TO 40 PCT DAILY. && PRELIMINARY POINT NUMBERS... MCB 66 87 64 88 / 20 10 00 10 BTR 69 88 66 89 / 20 20 10 20 MSY 72 88 72 89 / 20 20 10 20 GPT 69 87 66 87 / 30 20 10 20 && .LIX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. MS...NONE. LA AND MS COASTAL WATERS...NONE. && 05 (CONCLUSION OF MY CAREER)
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1100 AM CDT THU JUN 3 2004 LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-041100- AMITE-ASCENSION-ASSUMPTION-EAST BATON ROUGE-EAST FELICIANA-HANCOCK- HARRISON-IBERVILLE-JACKSON-LIVINGSTON-LOWER JEFFERSON- LOWER LAFOURCHE-LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST. BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE- ORLEANS-PEARL RIVER-PIKE-POINTE COUPEE-ST. CHARLES-ST. HELENA- ST. JAMES-ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST-ST. TAMMANY-TANGIPAHOA- UPPER JEFFERSON-UPPER LAFOURCHE-UPPER PLAQUEMINES-UPPER ST. BERNARD- UPPER TERREBONNE-WALTHALL-WASHINGTON-WEST BATON ROUGE-WEST FELICIANA- WILKINSON- 1100 AM CDT THU JUN 3 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST...SOUTH CENTRAL AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS THROUGH TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE TODAY AND ANOTHER LINE OF STORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA AGAIN TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EACH DAY AFTER FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME. 05
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A funnel cloud was observed near McNeill-McHenry Road.
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: 5407195.