2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Jun 9, 1:31 PM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 230 PM CDT WED JUN 9 2004 .DISCUSSION... SLOW MOVING LOW ALOFT IS FORECAST TO BEGIN MOVING SLOWLY EAST TONIGHT. WITH LATE AFTERNOON RAINS COMING FROM THE SOUTH AND POSSIBLITY SOME OF THESE MAY CONTINUE TO THE EVENING...WILL SHOW FLASH FLOOD WATCH THRU 400 AM THURSDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN TWO-THIRDS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. AS PROGRESSIVE LOW OVER WESTERN U.S. MOVES TOWARD WEST GREAT PLAINS THURSDAY...EXPECT WEAK LOW...IN THE SLOW SOUTHERN STREAM WESTERLIES...TO DRIFT EAST. SOME WEAKENESS IN HEIGHT FIELD LINGERS ALOFT OVER PART OF S CNTRL TX THURSDAY...THEREFORE WITH DAYTIME HEATING WDLY SCT TO SCT SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. MORE STABLE CONDITIONS SLOWLY SHOW UP FRIDAY FROM THE WEST...HOWEVER WEAK MARGINAL INSTABILITY IS OVER THE EAST PART OF S CNTRL TX. WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND HIGH SOIL MOISTURE...ISOLD TO WDLY SCT SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE. ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...S/W TROF MOVES NORTH OF S CNTRL TX SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...THEN NORTHEAST OF THE AREA ON SUNDAY. MAIN LIFT WITH THIS SYTEM WILL BE NORTH OF THE AREA. WILL SHOW SLGT CHC OF SHOWERS SATURDAY...AND FOR SUNDAY WILL SHOW ISOLD SHOWERS OVER THE EXTREME EAST PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THE SUNDAY JUNE 13TH PATTERN LOOKS THE SAME FOR MONDAY JUNE 14TH...AS WEAKNESS IN HEIGHT FIELD SHOWS UP OVER EAST PART OF S CNTRL TX...FROM COMPOSITE OF SOLUTIONS PAST 5 DAYS. WILL KEEP ISOLD POPS EAST PART OF AREA MONDAY OF NEXT WEEK. BY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY OF NEXT WEEK...COMPOSITE OF FORECASTS SHOW GRADUAL WEAKENING OF HIGH ALOFT...THEREFORE WILL SHOW WDLY SCT SHOWERS OR SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. USED AVERAGE OF GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN FROM PAST FEW DAYS AND THE LAST 3 RUNS OF THE SINGLE GFS SOLOUTION FOR NEXT WEEKS FORECASTS. ALSO INCORPORATED RECENT TRENDS. THE JUNE RAINS THIS YEAR ARE SIMILIAR TO OTHER HEAVY RAINS EVENTS IN JUNE. FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS...A PARTIAL LIST INCLUDES SOME OF THE FOLLOWING...JUNE OF 1976...1981...1985...1986...1987...1992... 1993...1997...2000...LATE 2002 AND JUNE 2003. CLIMATOLOGICALLY...THE 30 YEAR 1971 TO 2000 NORMALS SHOW JUNE TO BE THE 2ND WETTEST MONTH OF THE YEAR AT AUSTIN BERGSTROM...3.38 INCHES...THE 3RD WETTEST MONTH OF THE YEAR AT AUSTIN MABRY...3.81 INCHES...THE WETTEST MONTH OF THE YEAR AT DEL RIO...2.34 INCHES...AND 2ND WETTEST OF THE YEAR AT SAN ANTONIO...4.30. RAINFALL SO FAR THIS JUNE AT AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HAS EXCEEDED THE 10TH WETTEST JUNE OF RECORD...5.19 INCHES OBSERVED IN JUNE OF 1951. THE 10TH WETTEST JUNES AT OTHER LOCALITONS INCLUDES AUSTIN MABRY 8.21 INCHES...SAN ANTONIO 7.87 INCHES AND DEL RIO 5.13 INCHES. AT ANY RATE MORE RAIN THRU THIS EVENING...WITH SLOW DECAY IN CHANCE OF RAIN THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. SLOW INCREASE IN CHANCE OF RAIN POSSIBLE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NEXT WEEK...DEPENDING OF EVENTUAL EVOLUTION OF THE JUNE 14TH TO JUNE 20TH...2004 WEATHER PATTERN. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 73 87 75 90 / 70 40 10 20 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 73 87 74 90 / 70 40 10 20 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 76 94 77 96 / 30 05 10 10 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 74 87 75 90 / 50 30 10 10 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 4 AM CDT FOR EASTERN TWO-THIRDS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. && 08/01/JB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CDT WED JUN 9 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-101100- 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- 605 AM CDT WED JUN 9 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A FLOOD WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING CONTINUES THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON FOR PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY...THE AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO CORRIDOR AND EASTWARD. TROPICAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN TO THE WATCH AREA TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE TROPICAL MOISTURE PLUME WILL START TO MOVE EASTWARD AND AWAY FROM SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WITH A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY EXPECTED TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST...BUT NO ADDITIONAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
337 PM CDT WED JUN 09 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0300 PM FLASH FLOOD 12 SE SPRING BRANCH 29.74N 98.26W
06/09/2004 COMAL TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
HIGHWAY 46 CLOSED AT 1863. OTHER NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED
ACROSS COUNTY.
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JB/MSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
359 PM CDT WED JUN 09 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0357 PM FLASH FLOOD 4 N POTEET 29.10N 98.58W
06/09/2004 ATASCOSA TX COUNTY OFFICIAL
HWY 16 CLOSED. FM 2146 WEST OF HWY 173 CLOSED. HWY 173
WEST OF JOURDANTON CLOSED.
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JBThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Rainfall of between 1 and 2 inches west of US77, with totals of between 3 and 4 inches around West Point caused brief flash flooding in the evening period
Storms dropped from 1 to 2 inches of rain over northern Lee County, with areas of 3 inch rainfall between Lincoln and Lexington. Spotty flash flooding occurred north of SH21.
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, June 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: 5409407, 5409408.