1 tornado, 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 Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 2, 5:20 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 520 PM CST FRI APR 2 2004 .DISCUSSION...HAVE UPDATED ZONES/GRIDS TO REFLECT CURRENT TRENDS ON RADAR AND LAPS SURFACE ANALYSIS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING NORTHWEST OF THE CWA LATE THIS AFTERNOON WITH UNSTABLE SURFACE CONDITIONS ACROSS THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TX. RUC 500MB HEIGHT/VORTICITY ANALYSIS INDICATES SHORTWAVE TROUGH SOUTH OF THE BIG BEND WITH CONVECTION APPEARING TO BACK BUILD OVER THE WESTERN RIO GRANDE PLAINS. WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TO THE NORTHWEST AND EARLIER HAIL EVENT OVER KENEDY COUNTY, HAVE INCLUDED POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IN ADDITION...SPC IS CURRENTLY MONITORING DEEP SOUTH TX FOR SEVERE WEATHER WATCH. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...A S/WV TROUGH WITH ASSOCIATED PVA HAS MOVED NORTH OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON CAUSING SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS. THIS TROUGH WILL MOVE EAST OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS BY THIS EVENING DECREASING THE CHANCES FOR SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOVE NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT TO MODERATE OUT OF THE EAST TO SOUTHEAST. && .BRO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && .POINT TEMPS/POPS... BAYVIEW/PORT ISABEL 69 80 66 78 66/ 50 00 00 10 10 BROWNSVILLE 68 83 65 80 65/ 50 00 00 10 10 HARLINGEN 67 84 63 82 64/ 50 00 00 10 10 MCALLEN 66 86 63 84 63/ 50 00 00 10 10 RIO GRANDE CITY 64 86 61 84 62/ 50 00 00 10 10 SOUTH PADRE ISLAND 69 78 67 77 67/ 50 00 00 10 10 && SYNOPTIC/GRIDS...61 MARINE/AVIATION...58 MESO...VEGA THIS PRODUCT IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON OUR INTERNET WEB PAGE AT: HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1000 AM CST FRI APR 2 2004 TXZ248>257-031200- BROOKS-COASTAL CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-HIDALGO-INLAND CAMERON- INLAND WILLACY-JIM HOGG-KENEDY-STARR-ZAPATA- 1000 AM CST FRI APR 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. UPPER INSTABILITY NEAR WEST TEXAS...COUPLED WITH HIGHER LOW LEVEL WINDS AND MOISTURE...WILL INCREASE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL TODAY. AFTERNOON STORMS WILL SPREAD EAST AND SOUTH FROM WEST TEXAS TOWARD DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...WITH THE MAIN HAZARD BEING HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPROACHES THE AREA FROM THE NORTH ON SATURDAY... ACTING AS A FOCUS FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE INTO THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
301 PM CST FRI APR 02 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0256 PM HAIL 10 S FALFURRIAS 27.08N 98.14W
04/02/2004 0.50 INCH BROOKS TX PUBLIC
PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL
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KMVPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
315 PM CST FRI APR 02 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0314 PM HAIL 10 SW SARITA 27.11N 97.92W
04/02/2004 1.25 INCH KENEDY TX PUBLIC
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KMVThe Brownsville radar (KBRO), 177 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:29 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Local law enforcement reported a tornado just west of Roma. The tornado moved very slowly south with time and produced no damage before dissipating.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2004Warnings in Texas, 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: 5405399.