1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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 Nov 17, 3:45 AM CST, 1 hour earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 345 AM CST WED NOV 17 2004 .DISCUSSION... NEG TILT UPR LOW OVR W TX LIFTING SLOWLY NEWD INTO NORTH TX THIS MORNING. BULK OF HEAVY RAINS NOW MOVING THRU THE ERN HALF OF CWA WITH REDEVELOPMENT OF SCT SHRA/TSRA OVER THE WEST. NO CHANGE TO ONGOING FFA...HOWEVER THE WATCH MAY NEED TO BE EXTENDED OVER THE ERN COUNTIES FOR THIS EVENING AS THE UPR TROF WILL BE SLOW TO MOV EAST OF THE CWA. ADDITIONAL SPOTTY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 INCH IN THE WEST THIS MORNING AND MORE WIDESPREAD 1 TO 3 INCHES IN THE CENTRAL/EAST WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER 3 TO 5 INCH TOTALS EAST. SCT LINGERING SHOWERS IN THE EAST OVERNIGHT UNTIL THE BASE OF THE UPR TROF FINALLY SWINGS INTO SE TX. A S/W RDG BRIEFLY BUILDS INTO TX ON THU BEHIND THE TROF...WITH PARTIAL CLEARING. THE RDG QUICKLY FLATTENS FRIDAY AS THE NEXT S/W TROF PUSHES INTO NM/W TX AND A LONG WAVE TROF BEGINS TO FORM OVER THE WESTERN CONUS. THEREFORE WILL SEE INCREASING CLOUDS FRIDAY WITH RETURN FLOW LIKELY RESULTING IN WDLY SCT SHOWERS OR PATCHES OF -RA/DZ OVER A CLOUDY WEEKEND. A WEAKER CDFNT BRIEFLY BACKDOORS INTO THE NRN CWA LATE SUNDAY THEN QUICKLY RETREATS WITH A DIRTY SWLY FLOW ALOFT KEEPING SOME MENTION OF RAIN INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. POPS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE BY MID WEEK AS ANOTHER VIGOROUS UPR LOW TRACKS EAST ACRS N TX TUE-WEDNESDAY DRIVING A STG CDFNT THRU TX TUE/WED. THE LATEST ECMWF IS MORE PROGRESSIVE WITH THE NEXT LOW/CDFNT COMPARED TO THE GFS...AND THEREFORE THE FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY A BIT UNCERTAIN AT THIS TIME. BUT IT APPEARS AT LEAST FOR NOW BOTH HE ECMWF AND GFS INDICATE THAT THANKSGIVING WILL BE COLDER AND DRIER. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 73 58 73 56 / 80 60 10 0 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 74 59 75 57 / 80 60 10 0 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 74 58 76 54 / 50 30 0 0 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 74 59 75 58 / 80 60 5 0 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON 4PM ALL AREAS. && 01/03/JB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 537 AM CST TUE NOV 16 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-171200- 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- 537 AM CST TUE NOV 16 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE ALONG THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY AND SPREAD EAST ACROSS THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY TUESDAY NIGHT. HEAVY RAIN WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT...BUT SOME STORMS MAY ALSO BECOME SEVERE. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PREVAIL ALONG THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR WEDNESDAY MORNING AND MOVE EAST OUT OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE MAIN THREAT WILL AGAIN BE HEAVY RAIN...BUT SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AS WELL. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY LATE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
150 AM CST WED NOV 17 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0148 AM FLASH FLOOD SAN ANTONIO 29.46N 98.51W
11/17/2004 BEXAR TX DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
73 ROAD CLOSURES IN CITY.
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JPBSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 156 AM CST WED NOV 17 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-170815- 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- 156 AM CST WED NOV 17 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 AM FOR BLANCO...COMAL... BANDERA...BEXAR...MEDINA...ATASCOSA...BURNET...WILLIAMSON AND GUADALUPE COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 AM FOR EDWARDS... KERR...VAL VERDE...REAL...UVALDE...TRAVIS...HAYS AND KINNEY COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 AM FOR LLANO...GILLESPIE AND KENDALL COUNTIES... FLOOD WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY UNTIL 4 PM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 213 AM CST WED NOV 17 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-170915- 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- 213 AM CST WED NOV 17 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 AM FOR EDWARDS... KERR...VAL VERDE...REAL...UVALDE...TRAVIS...HAYS AND KINNEY COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 AM FOR LLANO...GILLESPIE AND KENDALL COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM FOR BLANCO...COMAL... BANDERA...BEXAR...MEDINA...ATASCOSA...BURNET...WILLIAMSON AND GUADALUPE COUNTIES... FLOOD WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY UNTIL 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT ... CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
229 AM CST WED NOV 17 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0148 AM FLASH FLOOD SAN ANTONIO 29.46N 98.51W
11/17/2004 BEXAR TX DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
73 ROAD CLOSURES IN CITY.
0130 AM FLASH FLOOD 2 E FLORENCE 30.84N 97.76W
11/17/2004 WILLIAMSON TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
HIGH WATER RESCUE. NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED IN COUNTY.
0225 AM FLASH FLOOD SAN MARCOS 29.88N 97.93W
11/17/2004 HAYS TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
43 ROADS CLOSED IN COUNTY.
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JBPSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 240 AM CST WED NOV 17 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-170915- 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- 240 AM CST WED NOV 17 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 AM FOR EDWARDS... KERR...VAL VERDE...REAL...UVALDE...TRAVIS...HAYS AND KINNEY COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 AM FOR LLANO...GILLESPIE AND KENDALL COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM FOR BLANCO...COMAL... BANDERA...BEXAR...MEDINA...ATASCOSA...BURNET...WILLIAMSON AND GUADALUPE COUNTIES... ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 AM FOR LEE...BASTROP...FAYETTE...CALDWELL...GONZALES...LAVACA... WILSON...DEWITT AND KARNES COUNTIES... FLOOD WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY UNTIL 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 401 AM CST WED NOV 17 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-171130- 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- 401 AM CST WED NOV 17 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM FOR EDWARDS... KERR...VAL VERDE...REAL...UVALDE...AND KINNEY COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM FOR BLANCO...COMAL... BANDERA...BEXAR...MEDINA...ATASCOSA...BURNET...WILLIAMSON AND GUADALUPE COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM FOR LLANO...GILLESPIE KENDALL...TRAVIS AND HAYS COUNTIES... ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 AM FOR LEE...BASTROP...FAYETTE...CALDWELL...GONZALES...LAVACA... WILSON...DEWITT AND KARNES COUNTIES... FLOOD WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY UNTIL 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Blanco River at Wimberley crested at 20.12 ft at 0830CST on November 17, where flood stage is 13 ft.
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, November 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: 5427967.