5 flash 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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 16, 11:58 AM CST, 3 hours 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1158 AM CST FRI JAN 16 2004 .AVIATION... IFR TO LIFR MOST OF NEXT 24 HOUR PERIOD AS H5 LIFT AND LLJ INCREASES ACROSS N TEXAS. PRECIP SHOULD INCREASE...WITH SOME THUNDER THREAT FOR KACT...AFTER 00Z...BUT LOOKS LIKE AIRPORTS SHOULD SEE PREVAILING MVFR TO VFR VSBY THROUGH THE PERIOD. SOME IMPROVEMENT EXPECTED AFTER 12Z...SHOULD DRY SLOT ARRIVE...WITH SOME WRAP AROUND PRECIP AFFECTING MAINLY THE METRO AIRPORTS INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS TOMORROW. && .UPDATE... WILL UPDATE MAX TEMPS THIS AFTERNOON...ALTHOUGH DIURNAL RANGE WILL BE SMALL. REMAINDER OF FORECAST APPEARS ON TRACK FOR NOW BUT WILL MONITOR FOR FURTHER UPDATES AS NEEDED. 42 && .DISCUSSION... 200 AM CST FRI JAN 16 2004 MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW GOOD ISENTROPIC LIFT ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH MIDNIGHT FRIDAY. LOOKS LIKE NORTH TEXAS WILL GET A GOOD GENERAL RAIN WITH WIDESPREAD TOTALS OF AN INCH OR MORE LIKELY. CENTER OF UPPER LOW WILL MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS NORTH TEXAS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY MORNING..WITH MOST OF THE ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION IN THE FORM OF WRAP AROUND RAIN CLOSE TO THE CENTER. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...WITH FALLING AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES SATURDAY. RAIN SHOULD END FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE REGION SUNDAY MORNING. NEXT UPPER LOW WILL APPROACH NORTH TEXAS BY TUESDAY...WITH ADDITIONAL CHANCES FOR RAIN TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THE MILD TEMPERATURES OF THE PAST WEEK WILL COME TO AN END SATURDAY AFTERNOON...WITH DAILY TEMPERATURES NEAR OR SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL NEXT WEEK. 59 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 60 58 60 39 / 100 100 50 40 WACO, TX 64 60 63 42 / 100 100 50 20 PARIS, TX 56 56 59 39 / 100 100 70 40 DENTON, TX 57 57 61 38 / 100 100 90 40 MCKINNEY, TX 57 57 59 39 / 100 100 70 40 DALLAS, TX 60 58 60 40 / 100 100 50 40 TERRELL, TX 59 59 61 41 / 100 100 50 40 CORSICANA, TX 62 60 62 42 / 100 100 50 20 TEMPLE, TX 65 60 63 42 / 100 100 50 20 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 307 PM CST FRI JAN 16 2004 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-171100- 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- THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG WITH WIDESPREAD LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL...ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MOST OF NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT. WHILE THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE...THEY WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. RAINFALL TONIGHT SHOULD AVERAGE BETWEEN HALF AN INCH AND ONE AND A HALF INCHES FOR MOST LOCATIONS...BUT ISOLATED 2 INCH AMOUNTS WILL BE POSSIBLE. THIS COULD CREATE SOME ISOLATED PONDING OR FLOODING OF NORMALLY FLOOD PRONE AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER INTO EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE...BUT THEY WILL BE CAPABLE OF CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ISOLATED SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT...MAINLY FOR MONITORING ANY LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
28 persons from a trailer park and a day care center were evacuated due to high water. Numerous roads were barricaded due to high water. Some street intersections had water three feet deep.
A car was submerged in water at Trinity and Precinct Line Road.
Roads were reported barricaded by the Killeen Police Department. Water was also over roads on the east side of Fort Hood.
Water covered roads across the western part of Fort Hood.
A farm-to-market road was closed due to high water near Harker Heights.
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, January 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: 5383790, 5383787, 5383788, 5383789, 5383791.