1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 18, 1:45 AM CST, 0 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 145 AM CST THU NOV 18 2004 .UPDATE... DENSE FOG DEVELOPING ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWFA SPREADING WESTWARD. HAVE ISSUED A DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR ALL OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... UPPER LOW ALONG THE RED RIVER VALLEY CONTINUES TO TRACK EASTWARD. BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PULLING AWAY FROM SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND HAVE REMOVED POPS FROM THE FAR EASTERN CWA. A LITTLE FOG HAS ALREADY DEVELOPED IN THE NORTHEASTERN HILL COUNTRY AND ADDED SOME EVENING PATCHY FOG THERE. DRIER AIR ALOFT AND LIGHT SURFACE WINDS COMBINED WITH HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT IN THE BOUNDARY LAYER AND SATURATED SOILS WILL ENABLE AREAS OF FOG TO DEVELOP AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOCAL VISIBILITIES COULD DROP TO A FEW HUNDRED FEET. THURSDAY LOOKS TO BE THE LONE FAIR WEATHER DAY OF THE FORECAST CYCLE. MOISTURE WILL SURGE BACK INTO THE AREA BY FRIDAY AHEAD OF A TROUGH CURRENTLY OVER CALIFORNIA. HAVE ADDED 10 OR SO POPS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT TO GRIDS WITH NO MENTION IN THE ZONES. MODELS SHOW SOME QPF DEVELOPING BY FRIDAY MORNING AND LATER SHIFTS WILL LIKELY HAVE TO ADD EARLIER MENTION OF POPS IF CONSISTENCY REMAINS. A WEAK BOUNDARY OSCILLATES IN AND AROUND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WHICH COULD FOCUS RAINFALL AS SERIES OF SPEED MAXES AND MID LEVEL SHORT-WAVES GENERATE LIFT THROUGH THE WEEKEND. STRONGER FRONT DROPS THROUGH SOUTHERN TEXAS LATE SUNDAY OR MONDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH APPROACHES AND MOVES THROUGH TUESDAY. THUS, IT APPEARS ANOTHER GOOD CHANCE OF RAINS LATE IN THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK. DUE TO EVAPORATIVE COOLING AND 850 MB TEMPERATURES IN THE SINGLE DIGITS HAVE LOWERED HIGH TEMPERATURES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. TAKING A QUICK GLANCE AT THE RAINFALL EVENT OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS SHOWS THE TWO HIGHEST AMOUNTS WERE BLANCO WITH 9.25 INCHES AND BOERNE WITH 8.89 INCHES. && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...DENSE FOG ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM FOR THE HILL COUNTY AND MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. && 13/03
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 525 PM CST WED NOV 17 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-181200- 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- 946 AM CST WED NOV 17 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Nueces River at Asherton crested at 28.19 ft at 1100CST on November 20, where flood stage is 20 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: 5428038.