5 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 19, 3:45 AM CST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 445 AM CDT THU AUG 19 2004 .UPDATE... COMPLICATED PATTERN WITH NUMEROUS LITTLE UPPER DISTURBANCES MOVING THROUGH THE AREA. SOME INDICATIONS IN WATER VAPOR THAT SUBTROPICAL JET MAY BE SLIDING ACROSS MEXICO INTO TEXAS LATER TONIGHT PROVIDING MORE POSSIBLE LIFT INTO THE MIX. AT THIS TIME I AM FOCUSING ON THE SHORT TERM SO...I AM INCREASING POPS THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE EASTERN HALF TO CATEGORICAL WITH LIKELY IN THE WEST DUE TO EXTENT OF CONVECTION AND POSSIBILITY OF NEW CONVECTION OUT WEST AS WARMING OCCURS AND NEW VORT LOBE MOVES INTO THAT AREA...BUT MOST EXTENSIVE POPS REMAIN IN THE EAST. LOW 80S FOR HIGH LOOKS REASONABLE IN AREAS RECEIVING LOTS OF RAIN WITH UPPER 80S AND POSSIBLY NEAR 90 FAR SOUTH. 84 .DISCUSSION... 445 AM CDT AREAS OF PRECIP CONTINUE PUSHING EASTWARD ACROSS CWA. RAINFALL TOTALS OVERNIGHT EXCEEDED 2 INCHES IN SOME LOCATIONS...FROM EASTLAND COUNTY SOUTHEASTWARD. BETWEEN GOLDTHWAITE AND HAMILTON...ISOLATED SPOTS MAY HAVE SEEN IN EXCESS OF 4 INCHES. PW VALUES CONTINUE TO INCREASE. HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY. WITH A SLOW-MOVING UPPER SYSTEM...SOME TRAINING IS ALSO POSSIBLE. HAVE MENTIONED HEAVY RAIN IN ZFP...BUT HAVE CHOSEN NOT ISSUE FFA. WITH RECENT DRY SPELL...GROUND SHOULD BE ABLE TO HANDLE A GOOD BIT OF RAIN. FFG VALUES REMAIN HIGH. ISOLATED STORM TOTALS OF 2-4 INCHES POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. SPC HAS SLIGHT RISK SW ZONES...WHERE DECENT SHEAR AND HIGH PW MAY BE REALIZED WITH ADEQUATE SUNSHINE. NOT CONVINCED SUFFICIENT CLEARING WILL OCCUR...BEST CHANCE FOR SVR SHOULD BE SW OF CWA...SJT CWA... NEAR CENTER OF SLIGHT RISK AREA. TSRA/SHRA CHANCES TO CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY AS FRONT NEARS. CONSIDERABLE MODEL DISAGREEMENT CONTINUES ABOUT FROPA. HAVE CHOSEN TO BRING FRONT THROUGH AS TROUGH AXIS SLIDES EAST FRIDAY NIGHT. WIND GRIDS NOT QUITE AS VIGOROUS AS GFS SERIES...BUT BRING FRONT FURTHER SOUTH THAN LATEST ETA. SLIGHT CHANCES CONTINUE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH DISTURBED FLOW. GFS HAS DONE A 180...NO MORE DEEP TROUGH OVER WESTERN STATES. RIDGE TO FINGER INTO TEXAS...CANADIAN AND ECMWF EVEN MORE CONVINCED. HAVE HELD OFF ON RAISING TEMPS...BUT REMOVED POPS AFTER MONDAY. WILL CONTINUE TO ASSESS AS MODELS COME INTO BETTER AGREEMENT. 25 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 85 72 88 71 / 80 40 40 30 WACO, TX 89 74 92 72 / 70 30 40 30 PARIS, TX 85 71 87 68 / 60 50 40 30 DENTON, TX 84 70 85 68 / 80 50 40 30 MCKINNEY, TX 84 70 85 68 / 80 50 40 30 DALLAS, TX 85 73 88 72 / 80 40 40 30 TERRELL, TX 85 72 88 70 / 60 40 40 30 CORSICANA, TX 88 74 91 72 / 60 30 40 30 TEMPLE, TX 89 74 92 72 / 70 30 40 30 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 410 AM CDT THU AUG 19 2004 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-201100- ANDERSON-BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DELTA- DENTON-EASTLAND-ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON- HENDERSON-HILL-HOOD-HOPKINS-HUNT-JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMAR-LAMPASAS- LEON-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILAM-MILLS-MONTAGUE-NAVARRO-PALO PINTO- PARKER-RAINS-ROBERTSON-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-VAN ZANDT- WISE-YOUNG- 410 AM CDT THU AUG 19 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER ALL OF NORTH TEXAS TODAY. THE STORMS WILL BE WIDESPREAD OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS THIS MORNING...AND OVER THE EASTERN HALF THIS AFTERNOON. NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. WHILE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL GENERALLY BE ONE INCH OR LESS...SOME ISOLATED AMOUNTS BETWEEN TWO AND FOUR INCHES ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. THIS MAY RESULT IN ISOLATED EXCESSIVE RUNOFF...AND MINOR FLOODING...IN LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS...ESPECIALLY IN URBAN SETTINGS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS FRIDAY...WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. 42
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 22 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:02 UTC.
5 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Two cars were stranded in high water on Rufe Snow and North Tarrant Parkway.
Vehicles were stranded in high water at an underpass just east of the downtown area.
Heavy rain caused part of the roof at State Fair Foods to collapse, suspending operations indefinitely.
There were two high water rescues in the southern part of the county. Water was running over county roads 415 and 3136.
Low water crossings in and around Hamilton were flooded. Some roads in the area had to be barricaded.
Highway 36, FM 1476, and Highway 16 in and around Comanche were impassable due to high water in low lying areas. Some homes were also flooded.
A barn was damaged and trees were blown down.
A large tree was blown down across Holly Cemetary Road near Highway 79 in east Franklin.
4 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down in Calvert.
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: 5419091, 5419090, 5419092, 5419084, 5419088, 5419087, 5419089, 5419086, 5419085.