6 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 29, 7:59 PM CST, 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 859 PM CDT THU JUL 29 2004 .UPDATE...GRIDS AND FORECAST WERE UPDATED TO REFLECT CURRENT RADAR AND TRENDS FOR TONIGHT. OTHERWISE FORECAST LOOKS FINE. && .PREV DISCUSSION... CONVECTION BCMG ORGANIZED ACROSS THE NRN HILL COUNTRY THIS AFTN IN AN AREA OF CONVERGENCE ALONG A SLOW MOVG SFC TROF. A S/W WILL DIVE SWD OVR WEST TX ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE BROAD UPR TROF OVR TX...WHILE A FAIRLY GOOD INFLOW OF WARM GULF AIR EXISTS THIS EVENING. THEREFORE EXPECT CONVECTION TO CONTINUE WELL BEYOND SUNSET...AND WITH MID LVL WINDS PARALLEL TO THE SFC TROF THERE WILL BE A POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY TRAINING RAINFALL AS THE SFC BOUNDARY SAGS INTO THE HILL COUNTRY AND STORMS BACK-BUILD SWWD...SO WILL ISSUE AN FFA THRU 4 AM FRIDAY MORNING. THE UPR TROF SLIPS JUST TO THE EAST DURING THE DAY FRI AND WILL SEE DECREASING POPS FROM THE WEST...BUT CONTD CHC IN THE EAST THRU THE DAY. WILL LEAVE THE FORECAST DRY FOR THE WEEKEND AND NEXT WEEK AS THE UPR RDG BUILDS INTO NM/N TX...HOWEVER SOME THERE COULD BE SOME ISOLD SEA-BREEZE SHOWERS OVR THE SE COUNTIES ON THE SRN PERIPHERY OF THE RDG. && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 02/13
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 535 AM CDT THU JUL 29 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-301100- 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- 535 AM CDT THU JUL 29 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY. SEVERAL WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES...DAYTIME HEATING AND ABUNDANT MOISTURE ACROSS THE REGION WILL PRODUCE WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL IN A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME AND CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. WITH AMPLE MOISTURE IN PLACE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN ON FRIDAY AND INTO FRIDAY EVENING. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 35. OVER THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...A DRIER WEATHER PATTERN IS EXPECTED WITH UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING ACROSS THE AREA... REDUCING RAIN CHANCES AND ALLOWING TEMPERATURES TO RETURN TO NORMAL EARLY AUGUST VALUES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
6 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain between Muldoon and Engle averaged near 2 inches, with spotty 4 inch accumulations. Flash flooding closed several roads at low water crossings, including FM609 and FM154.
Rainfall averaged between 2 and 3 inches in showers and thunderstorms around Gonzales. Several low water crossings were reported to be under water just before midnight.
Thunderstorms produced between 1 and 2 inch totals, with isolated amounts to 4 inches between Floresville and Stockdale in the evening. Flooding closed sections of SH97 and FM537 just before midnight.
Between 1 and 3 inches of rain fell between Karnes City and Kenedy in the late evening. Flash flooding closed parts of FM99 and FM792 just before midnight.
Heavy rain averaged 1 to 2 inches over western Lavaca County, with areas of up to 3 inches between Shiner and Yoakum. Flash flooding was reported just prior to midnight.
General 1to 2 inch rain amounts fell over DeWitt County just before midnight, with up to 4 inches between Yorktown and Cuero and also to the northeast of Cuero. Several roads were closed by flash flooding between the two cities.
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: 5415833, 5415834, 5415835, 5415836, 5415837, 5415838.