2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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 Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 4, 8:30 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
830 PM CST SUN APR 4 2004
.SHORT TERM...A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN
UNITED STATES AND AN EASTWARD PROPAGATING LOW PRESSURE TROUGH HAS
RESULTED IN ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE OVER DEEP
SOUTH TEXAS. SEVERE WEATHER HAS OCCURRED TONIGHT OVER ZAPATA, JIM
HOGG AND BROOKS COUNTIES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN
EFFECT FOR BROOKS, JIM HOGG, ZAPATA, MOST OF KENEDY AND STARR,
NORTHERN HIDALGO AND WESTERN WILLACY COUNTIES UNTIL 11 PM CDT.
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS AND THE ADJACENT MARINE AREAS THROUGH TUESDAY. THE
FORECAST PACKAGE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH.
&&
.LONG TERM...DRIER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE AREA THE MIDDLE
OF THE WEEK. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL MOVE THROUGH DEEP SOUTH TEXAS
THURSDAY. THE CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE
OVER THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONTAL
BOUNDARY. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHEAST THURSDAY EVENING ONCE
THE FRONT PASSES.
&&
.MARINE...AT 7 PM BUOY 020 REPORTED EAST WINDS AT 19 KNOTS WITH
GUSTS TO 23 KNOTS AND SEAS AT 5 FEET WITH A 7 SECOND PERIOD. A
FRONTAL BOUNDARY LOCATED NORTH OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF DEEP SOUTH
TEXAS AND A LOW PRESSURE TROUGH MOVING ACROSS TEXAS WILL GENERATE
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MARINE AREAS THROUGH TUESDAY.
WINDS AND SEAS WILL INCREASE OVER THE COASTAL WATERS MONDAY.
MODERATE SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL PREVAIL OVER THE MARINE AREAS THROUGH
TUESDAY. WINDS AND SEAS WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL MOVE ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS THURSDAY
RESULTING IN A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. WINDS WILL
SHIFT TO THE NORTHEAST OVER THE MARINE AREAS THURSDAY.
&&
.AVIATION...VFR TO MVFR CONDITIONS ARE BEING REPORTED AT THE
REGIONAL AIRPORTS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. MODERATE EAST TO SOUTHEAST
WINDS WILL PREVAIL OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THE NEXT FEW DAYS. SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER PORTIONS OF THE CWA THE NEXT 24
HOURS. GUSTY WINDS FREQUENT LIGHTENING AND HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR IN
OR NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. VFR TO IFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE
REGIONAL AERODROMES THROUGH MONDAY.
&&
.BRO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 04Z MONDAY
TXZ248-249-252-250-253-251-254. &&
58/63/MARTINEZ
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HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BROHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1229 AM CDT MON APR 5 2004 TXZ248>257-051100- BROOKS-COASTAL CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-HIDALGO-INLAND CAMERON- INLAND WILLACY-JIM HOGG-KENEDY-STARR-ZAPATA- 1229 AM CDT MON APR 5 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...REST OF TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH INTERACTS WITH MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE REGION. THE CHANCES FOR HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS IS FORECAST TO REMAIN MOIST AND UNSTABLE FOR MUCH OF THE UPCOMING WEEK. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN IN THE EXTENDED FORECAST AS A CONSEQUENCE. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL BE GREATEST IN THE NORTHERN COUNTIES MONDAY AND TUESDAY. DEVELOPMENT OF ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE MONDAY AND TUESDAY. AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT MAY TRIGGER ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTERS ARE URGED TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY TONIGHT.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
756 PM CDT SUN APR 04 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0755 PM HAIL FALFURRIAS 27.22N 98.14W
04/04/2004 1.50 INCH BROOKS TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
855 PM CDT SUN APR 04 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0838 PM HAIL HEBBRONVILLE 27.32N 98.69W
04/04/2004 0.75 INCH JIM HOGG TX EMERGENCY MNGR
PENNY SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY EMERGENCY MANAGER.
&&
XXXPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
924 PM CDT SUN APR 04 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0910 PM HAIL FALFURRIAS 27.22N 98.14W
04/04/2004 1.75 INCH BROOKS TX EMERGENCY MNGR
NICKEL TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL, STRONG GUSTY WINDS, VERY
HEAVY RAIN, AND WINDOWS KNOCKED OUT OF DPS VEHICLES
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY MANAGER.
&&
XXXSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1100 PM CDT SUN APR 4 2004 TXZ248>254-050430- BROOKS-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY-JIM HOGG-KENEDY-STARR-ZAPATA- 1100 PM CDT SUN APR 4 2004 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY HAS EXPIRED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ALLOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISSUED EARLIER TONIGHT TO EXPIRE AT 1100 PM. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER MANY AREAS OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY. NORTHERN KENEDY COUNTY STILL HAS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH TOWARD THE ADJACENT GULF OF MEXICO. MARINERS OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE LOWER TEXAS GULF WATERS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...AS OUTFLOWS MOVE FROM THE COLLAPSING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ADJACENT GULF.. PHILO
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 150 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:09 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Local officials in Roma reported flash flooding of roads and low lying areas.
Law enforcement closed Farm to Market road 106 between Harlingen and Rio Honda due to flash flooding caused by heavy rains.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5405404, 5405405.