3 thunderstorm wind, 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 Aug 11, 12:46 PM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 146 PM CDT WED AUG 11 2004 .DISCUSSION... COLD FRONT COMING THROUGH. LOOKS TO BE A FAIRLY CLEAN ONE WITH DRY NORTHERLY WINDS ALOFT ALL LEVELS. THIS COOL AIRMASS WILL STAY WITH US THROUGH SATURDAY. COLD AIR ADVECTION WILL MAKE FOR SUSTAINED WINDS OF 10 TO 15 MPH TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. RECORD LOWS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ARE IN THE LOWER AND MID 60S. WE WILL COME CLOSE, MAYBE A CATEGORY OR TWO HIGHER, FRIDAY MORNING. THE NORTHEAST FLOW IN THE BOUNDARY LAYER WILL BANK THE CLOUDS ALONG THE SIERRAS. SO THE RIO GRANDE COUNTIES WILL HAVE SOME RESIDUAL CLOUD COVER AND HIGHER P.W. BOTH ETA AND GFE INDICATE A SHORTWAVE COMING DOWN THE PIKE THURSDAY NIGHT BRINGING A QUICK ROUND OF SHOWERS TO THE AREA. CAN FIND A WEAK VORT MAX IN NEVADA AT THIS TIME, COINCIDENT WITH THE VORTICITY THAT DROPS INTO THE AREA FRIDAY. MOISTURE MAY BE A BIT TOO DRY FOR OBVIOUS WIDESPREAD SHOWERS FRIDAY SO WILL SHAVE BACK CURRENT POPS. THE UPPER TROUGH LIFTS SATURDAY SHIFTING THE SPLIT IN THE UPPER RIDGE WESTWARD OVER TEXAS. THIS WILL ALLOW THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TO RETURN AND TEMPS RETURN TO NEAR NORMAL LEVELS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 70 88 66 93 / 50 - 0 0 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 69 88 62 93 / 50 - 0 0 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 72 88 68 88 / 30 20 10 10 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 72 89 67 92 / 50 20 0 0 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 06/02/PM/VL
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 518 AM CDT WED AUG 11 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-121030- ATASCOSA-BANDERA-BASTROP-BEXAR-BLANCO-BURNET-CALDWELL-COMAL-DE WITT- 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- 518 AM CDT WED AUG 11 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AS SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ALONG AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WINDS...WITH A SECONDARY THREAT OF LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE PERIOD AS AN UNSTABLE NORTHWEST FLOW CONTINUES AT THE UPPER LEVELS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Damaging winds from severe thunderstorms knocked down trees between Dime Box and Lincoln.
Severe thunderstorm winds blew down power lines near Smithville.
The Fayette County Sheriff's Department reported numerous trees blown down between LaGrange and Round Top.
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, August 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: 5420600, 5420601, 5420602.