1 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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 7, 1:25 AM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 225 AM CDT WED APR 7 2004 .DISCUSSION... A LAYER OF SOUTHERLY WINDS JUST OFF THE SFC IS YIELDING A LOW STRATUS DECK OCCASIONALLY DROPPING TO THE SFC AS DENSE FOG. JUST ABOVE THIS IS DRIER WEST WINDS. FEW FAIR WX CU CLOUDS THIS AFTERNOON FROM EVAPORATING RAIN WATER. TEMPS TODAY WILL BE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. AREAS WHERE GROUNDS SATURATED WILL KEEP TEMPS A BAY (NEAR 80). AS THE UPPER LOW OVER THE PANHANDLE SLIDES EAST THIS AFTERNOON, A COLD FRONT WILL SLIDE SOUTH INTO TEXAS. WINDS DOWN HERE WILL SWING AROUND TO THE NORTH AFTER SUNSET, WITH MIN TEMPS AT OR ABOVE NORMAL. ANOTHER UPPER LOW ON THE HEELS OF THIS ONE WILL MOVE ACROSS ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO THURSDAY THEN LIFT NORTHEAST ACROSS THE PANHANDLE AS AN OPEN WAVE. WINDS AND CLOUDS WILL RESPOND IN KIND WITH A SHOT OF LIGHT SHOWERS OVER THE RIO GRANDE COUNTIES THURSDAY NIGHT,THEN AFTERNOON SHOWERS EAST. FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, THE UPPER FLOW SHIFTS FROM ZONAL TO SOUTHWESTERLY, INCREASING THE DEPTH OF MOISTURE AGAIN, AND SETTING UP FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. A DEVELOPING UPPER TROUGH DEEPENS JUST LEE OF THE ROCKIES AND SPAWNS A STRONG SPRING STORM SYSTEM IN THE NEAR GULF WATERS FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE WORKWEEK. WRAPAROUND CLOUDINESS MONDAY WILL EXIT OVERNIGHT WITH DRY WEATHER AND SEASONAL TEMPS HOLDING THROUGH MIDWEEK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 81 58 80 60 / 0 0 0 0 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 79 55 78 56 / 0 0 0 0 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 85 60 82 65 / 0 0 0 10 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 81 60 80 60 / 0 0 0 0 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 06/04
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 533 AM CDT WED APR 7 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-081000- ATASCOSA-BANDERA-BASTROP-BEXAR-BLANCO-BURNET-CALDWELL-COMAL-DEWITT- DIMMIT-EDWARDS-FAYETTE-FRIO-GILLESPIE-GONZALES-GUADALUPE-HAYS-KARNES- KENDALL-KERR-KINNEY-LAVACA-LEE-LLANO-MAVERICK-MEDINA-REAL-TRAVIS- UVALDE-VAL VERDE-WILLIAMSON-WILSON-ZAVALA- 533 AM CDT WED APR 7 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Nueces River at Asherton crested at 26.28 feet on April 9 at 1930CST, where flood stage is 20 feet.
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: 5393294.