2 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 Huntsville, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 6, 2:06 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 200 PM CST MON DEC 6 2004 .DISCUSSION... EARLY AFTERNOON SFC ANALYSIS SHOWING WARM FRONT APPEARS TO BE HUNG UP AND STRETCHES FROM CENTRAL AR THROUGH NRN MS INTO WEST CENTRAL AL. OVERRUNNING RAINS CONTINUE ACROSS THE ENTIRE FA WITH RAINFALL TOTALS SINCE LAST NIGHT STARTING TO ADD UP TO THE TUNE OF 2 TO 4 INCHES WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS ACROSS NORTHERN AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA. BASED ON CURRENT RADAR TRENDS WIDESPREAD RAIN NOW APPEARS AS IF IT WILL LINGER INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO REMAIN OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE AREA. WV IMAGERY SHOWING UPPER LOW CONTINUING TO MAKE STEADY PROGRESS ACROSS TX. STILL WATCHING THE ARKLAMISS REGION FOR STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS...BUT EXPANSIVE CLOUDS AND QUITE A BIT OF STRATIFORM PRECIP HAVE KEPT THINGS IN CHECK FOR NOW. AS UPPER LOW CATCHES UP WITH THIS AREA STILL EXPECT SOME STRONGER STORMS TO DEVELOP IN THIS AREA THIS EVENING WHICH WILL MERGE INTO A LINE AND MOVE INTO THE FA LATE TONIGHT. GIVEN STRENGTH OF WINDS FIELDS ANY STORM IN THE LINE WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO ROTATE AND PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS. AS LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES EXPECT SOME OF THAT ENERGY TO MIX DOWN EVEN WITHOUT PRECIP SO GUSTY WINDS UP TO 30 MPH OR SO WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ON THE RIDGE TOPS. EVENING SHIFT MAY HAVE TO ISSUE WIND ADVISORY. BIGGEST CONCERN WILL CONTINUE TO BE FLOODING THREAT WITH ANOTHER ONE TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY. IN ADDITION TO PONDING AND FLASH FLOODING...MANY AREA RIVERS WILL APPROACH OR EXCEED FLOOD STAGE IN THE COMING DAYS. WILL KEEP FLOOD WATCH GOING FOR THE ENTIRE AREA THROUGH NOON TOMORROW FOR SIMPLICITY SAKE. CONVERGENCE ALONG FRONT AND PRE FRONTAL TROF WILL BE WEAKENING WITH TIME AND MAIN PRECIP AREA SHOULD BE EAST OF THE AREA BY MID TO LATE MORNING TOMORROW. DRY...BUT MILD CONDITIONS EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY BEFORE NEXT QUICK MOVING UPPER TROF APPROACHES THE AREA. WAVE WILL DEVELOP IN THE VICINITY OF THE GULF WITH ANOTHER OVERRUNNING EVENT IN STORE...BUT SHOULD BE OF SHORTER DURATION. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... HUNTSVILLE 62 69 41 65 / 100 80 10 0 SHOALS 64 69 40 64 / 100 60 10 0 CULLMAN 63 70 43 66 / 100 80 10 0 FAYETTEVILLE 61 69 41 63 / 100 80 10 0 FT PAYNE 61 69 43 64 / 100 80 10 0 && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH NOON TUESDAY. TN...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH NOON TUESDAY. && 09
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 109 PM CST MON DEC 6 2004 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-070330- COLBERT-CULLMAN-DE KALB-FRANKLIN AL-FRANKLIN TN-JACKSON-LAUDERDALE- LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-LINCOLN-MADISON-MARSHALL-MOORE-MORGAN- 109 PM CST MON DEC 6 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PARTS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...(THROUGH TONIGHT)... PERIODS OF RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS AS A WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTHWARD ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY. THERE STILL APPEARS TO BE A BREAK IN THE ACTIVITY DURING THE EVENING HOURS AND UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. AN AREA OF STORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE ARKLAMISS REGION TONIGHT...AND BEGIN TO AFFECT NORTHWEST ALABAMA AFTER MIDNIGHT. A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF I 65 FROM 3 TO 6 AM...AND THEN MOVE EASTWARD. IT STILL APPEARS THAT INSTABILITY WILL BE LIMITED...WHICH SHOULD PRECLUDE A WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK. HOWEVER...GIVEN THE STRONG WIND FIELDS THAT WILL BE IN PLACE...ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT DOES DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS OF 40 TO 60 MPH...AND PERHAPS AN ISOLATED TORNADO. BESIDES DAMAGING WINDS...THE MAIN HAZARD WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHERE 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IS EXPECTED THROUGH NOON ON TUESDAY. WITH THE GROUND NEARLY SATURATED FROM RECENT RAINS... FLOODING IS LIKELY IN LOW LYING AREAS AND ALONG CREEKS...STREAMS AND SOME RIVERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...(TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY)... THE LINE OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY TUESDAY MORNING. AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF I 65 WILL MAINLY BE AFFECTED FROM 6 AM TO NOON. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH ON TUESDAY...AND PUSH THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE VALLEY BY MIDDAY. DRIER WEATHER WILL RETURN BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. ANOTHER ROUND OF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE BY LATE IN THE WEEK AS ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES THE AREA. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS POSSIBLE THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. 24
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 52 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:01 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash flooding initially started in Fayetteville and increased countywide through the event. Numerous roads had several inches of water over them through early on 7 December.
Flash flooding was reported initially in Winchester and spread throughout much of the county by 1900. Numerous roads had several inches of water over them until early morning on 7 December.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, December 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: 5432203, 5432204.