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 Jul 24, 9:07 PM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1007 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2004 .UPDATE... OUTFLOW BOUNDARY EXTENDS FROM JUST NORTH OF WACO TO ELDORADO TO JUST NORTH OF FORT STOCKTON WITH COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA TO SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO SLOWLY SAG SOUTHWARD AND WILL ENTER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. DUE TO UPPER LEVEL RIDGING, AIRMASS WILL REMAIN CAPPED, SO WILL LOWER POPS FOR TONIGHT, EXCEPT WILL RETAIN CHANCE POPS DUE TO LIFT FROM BOUNDARY. HAVE TWEAKED POPS FOR SUNDAY BASED ON BOUNDARY MOVEMENT. VERY COLD AIRMASS (BY LATE JULY STANDARDS WITH HIGHS IN THE 50S TODAY EASTERN COLORADO AND FAR WESTERN KANSAS TO 60S IN THE NORTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE) WILL REMAIN WELL NORTH OF CWA, HOWEVER, HIGH TEMPERATURES MAY HAVE TO BE LOWERED A CATEGORY OR SO DUE TO CLOUDS AND RAIN FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY. OTHERWISE, ONGOING CWA FORECASTS GENERALLY ON TRACK. && .PREV DISCUSSION... SURFACE ANALYSIS HAS COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY LOCATED SOMEWHERE FROM WEST CENTRAL TEXAS NEAR MIDLAND TO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS NEAR WICHITA FALLS. FRONT IS STATIONARY AS IT HAS SHOWN VERY LITTLE TO NO MOVEMENT DURING THE DAY. A WEAK RIDGE OVER THE GULF PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR THE SOUTHEAST WINDS MOVING ACROSS THE COASTAL PLAINS INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. MODEL GUIDANCE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH KEEPING FRONTAL BOUNDARY SOMEWHAT STATIONARY ACROSS CENTRAL/NORTHERN TEXAS THIS LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY DEVELOPING. MODELS HAVE A VERY SLOW FRONTAL MOVEMENT OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS...WITH A SUNDAY AFTERNOON WINDS SHIFT OVER THE HILL COUNTRY. LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION EXPECTED AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY ON SUNDAY. MODEL DEVELOP A REINFORCING RIDGE BEHIND THE FRONTAL SYSTEM BY LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING. THIS WILL STALL THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS THE FORECAST WARNING AREA ON MONDAY. PRECIPITATION CHANCES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK AS WASHED OUT FRONTAL SYSTEM LEAVES BEHIND AN UNSTABLE AND MOIST AIRMASS. && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 04/06/JB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 634 AM CDT SAT JUL 24 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-251100- 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- 634 AM CDT SAT JUL 24 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... 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 Pecos River at Pandale crested at 15.37 feet on July 25 at 2215CST, where flood stage is 7 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, July 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: 5420516.