1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 28, 9:05 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1005 AM CDT WED JUL 28 2004 .UPDATE... HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE ACROSS THE FAR NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA AS A WAVE CONTINUES TO TRAVERSE THE AREA THIS MORNING. THE RAIN SHOULD GRADUALLEY TAPER ACROSS THE NORTH THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON WITH RE-DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED TO THE SOUTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON WITH ANOTHER WAVE. HAVE UPDATED TEMPERATURES AND POPS SOME...MAINLY ACROSS THE NORTH. && .PREV DISCUSSION... NUMEROUS SHOWERS WITH 1 OR 2 EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY...AND EXTENDED WEST INTO THE PERMIAN BASIN...BIG BEND AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS. STORMS WERE IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN EASTWARD MOVING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH FROM BIG BEND INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO. UPPER AIR SOUNDINGS AT 00Z/28 STILL INDICATED A VERY MOIST ATMOSPHERE...WITH PRECIP H2O AT 1.53/1.79/1.88 AT MAF/FWD/DRT RESPECTIVELY. SKIES TEMPORARILY CLEARED AT SAN ANGELO...THEN FILLED IN WITH A CEILING OF 100 TO 300 FEET AGL AT 6Z. SHOULD SEE CIG INCREASE IN NEXT COUPLE HOURS AS MORE MID LEVEL CLOUDS MOVE NORTHEAST FROM THE TRANSPECOS...AND WARM THE LOWER LAYER. GFS MODEL LOOKS JUST SLIGHTLY SLOW WITH THE WEST TEXAS SHORTWAVE...SO AM TRENDING TOWARD HIGH POPS TODAY AS UPPER SHORTWAVE MOVES THROUGH. BATCH OF STORMS IN BIG BEND AND TRANSPECOS SHOULD MOVE INTO THE CONCHO VALLEY AND BIG COUNTRY THIS MORNING. BEST CHANCES OF RAIN WILL BE ALONG AND NORTH OF OZONA...SAN ANGELO...CROSS PLAINS LINE. HAD LOCALIZED AREAS UP TO 2 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN YESTERDAY. COULD SEE THAT AGAIN TODAY. SWODY1 HAS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STERLING CITY...ROBERT LEE...ABILENE AND NORTHWARD BUT CLOUD COVER TODAY SHOULD KEEP SEVERE POTENTIAL DOWN. THAT SAID...MAY HAVE A BIT OF CLEARING THIS AFTERNOON...AS GFS MODEL INDICATES UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE CLEARING OUT. CONSIDERABLE 700 HT MOISTURE AND BELOW REMAINS INTO THURSDAY. A SECONDARY SLOW MOVING UPPER TROUGH MOVES THROUGH THURSDAY. WITH LOW/MID MOISTURE STILL HANGING ON...KEPT A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS GOING. MAY SEE ISOLATED STORMS ON FRIDAY...WITH MOISTURE HANGING AROUND. WITH NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT ON FRIDAY NIGHT...MAY SEE MCS (GROUP OF STORMS) MIGRATE OVERNIGHT FROM THE PANHANDLE INTO THE BIG COUNTRY SATURDAY MORNING. LEFT RAIN CHANCES OUT SUNDAY AND LATER PERIODS AS UPPER HIGH BUILDS IN. STILL REALLY CANT RULE OUT SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AS CENTER OF HIGH WILL BE TO THE WEST...AND REGION WILL BE IN AREA OF NORTHWEST/NORTHERLY FLOW. && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 99/99
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 511 AM CDT WED JUL 28 2004 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-291009- BROWN TX-CALLAHAN TX-COKE TX-COLEMAN TX-CONCHO TX-CROCKETT TX- FISHER TX-HASKELL TX-IRION TX-JONES TX-KIMBLE TX-MASON TX- MCCULLOCH TX-MENARD TX-NOLAN TX-RUNNELS TX-SAN SABA TX-SCHLEICHER TX- SHACKELFORD TX-STERLING TX-SUTTON TX-TAYLOR TX-THROCKMORTON TX- TOM GREEN TX- 511 AM CDT WED JUL 28 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... SEVERAL WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL CONTINUE TO COMBINE WITH ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT. ALTHOUGH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS...A FEW STORMS MAY ALSO EACH SEVERE LEVELS AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL... ESPECIALLY IF THE CLOUD COVER BREAKS MORE THIS AFTERNOON AND ALLOWS BETTER SUNSHINE AND INSTABILITY TO DEVELOP. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY. AGAIN... LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. 07
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Highway 79 was flooded with water running over the road.
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: 5413317.