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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 14, 3:20 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 320 PM CST SUN MAR 14 2004 .DISCUSSION... TWO AREAS OF CONVERGENCE AT THE SURFACE CONTRIBUTING TO CURRENT UPTREND IN COVERAGE OF CONVECTION. THE FIRST...A COASTAL TROUGH IS BECOMING ILL-DEFINED GIVEN THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW...BUT APPEARS TO BE SHIFTING FURTHER SOUTH INTO CWA CRP. THE OTHER BOUNDARY IS A WEAK COLD FRONT PUSHING SOUTH ACROSS CWA EWX. THIS BOUNDARY IS ILL- DEFINED AS WELL GIVEN AREA SURFACE OB WINDS...BUT CAN BE IDENTIFIED BY TEMPS IN THE 60S TO THE NORTH OF THE FRONT. AM EXPECTING A DOWNTREND WITHIN A FEW HOURS AFTER SUNDOWN...AS THIS ROUND IS LIKELY AIDED BY SURFACE HEATING AHEAD OF THE FRONT. THE UPPER LOW OVER WESTERN MEXICO WILL OPEN UP AND EJECT OUT OVER SOUTH TEXAS AND THE GULF OF MEXICO LATE TOMORROW. WILL MAINTAIN CHANCE POPS UNTIL THEN. WILL CONTINUE WITH SLIGHT CHANCE POPS TUE AND WED WITH A WEAK COLD FRONT NUDGING DOWN INTO CENTRAL TX AND A SERIES OF SHORT WAVE TROUGHS MOVING OVER IN THE NW FLOW ALOFT. UPPER FLOW WEAKENS AND GOES ZONAL AFTER THAT...ALLOWING FOR A BUILD-UP OF PWS. SO WILL CONTINUE SLIGHT CHANCE POPS INTO FRI...BUT DROP THEM OFF AFTER THAT GIVEN LOW CONFIDENCE IN MEDIUM RANGE MODEL SOLUTIONS FOR SAT/SUN. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 57 72 56 75 / 40 30 10 20 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 56 71 53 74 / 40 30 10 20 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 58 74 56 79 / 40 10 0 0 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 58 71 56 77 / 50 30 0 10 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...FLASH FLOOD WATCH EAST OF I-35 THRU 9PM CST. && 11/01
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CST SUN MAR 14 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-151200- ATASCOSA-BANDERA-BASTROP-BEXAR-BLANCO-BURNET-CALDWELL-COMAL-DE WITT- 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- THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
512 PM CST SUN MAR 14 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0503 PM HAIL 9 NW JUNO 30.24N 101.22W
03/14/2004 1.00 INCH VAL VERDE TX TRAINED SPOTTER
0305 PM HAIL 9 NW JUNO 30.24N 101.22W
03/14/2004 1.00 INCH VAL VERDE TX TRAINED SPOTTER
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CAPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
512 PM CST SUN MAR 14 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0305 PM HAIL 9 NW JUNO 30.24N 101.22W
03/14/2004 1.00 INCH VAL VERDE TX TRAINED SPOTTER
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CAThe Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:30 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Additional showers and thunderstorms developing in the late afternoon produced totals of up to 1.5 inches near Sublime in eastern Lavaca County. County roads 142 and 138 were closed during the early evening hours due to flash flooding.
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, March 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: 5389589.