3 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 1, 9:23 PM CST, 5 hours 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 923 PM CST MON NOV 1 2004 .DISCUSSION... THE MESO HIGH THAT WAS OVER SE TX EARLIER THIS EVENING WAS MOVING NE. THIS HAS ALLOWED THE SURFACE TROUGH (OR FRONTAL BOUNDARY) JUST OFF THE COAST TO BEGIN MOVING BACK NORTHWARD. THE ETA HAS BEEN DOING A GOOD JOB WITH THE SYSTEM THIS EVENING AND SHOWS THAT A GOOD VORTICITY MAXIMUM AT 500 MB WILL MOVE OVERHEAD TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. THE MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE THE RAINFALL AMOUNTS. GIVEN THE THICKNESS SATURATION AND PW/S...THE VICINITY OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY AND UPPER TROUGH...AND THE REGION OF THE JET ALOFT...THE FLOOD WATCH LOOKS GOOD FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. REALLY DO NOT SEE MUCH OF A BREAK UNTIL LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THE PW/S WERE BETWEEN 1.8 AND 2 INCHES ON THE 00Z CRP AND LCH SOUNDINGS RESPECTIVELY AND THESE VALUES ARE ABOVE 2 S.D. FOR THIS DATE. WITH THE ETA INDICATING 2 INCH PW/S FOR THE BETTER PART OF THE NEXT 18 HOURS...WOULD EXPECT ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES AND SOME ISOLATED 4 TO 5 INCHES POSSIBLE. THE NEXT ITEM TO TACKLE IS THE EXPECTED AREA OF THE RAINFALL. THIS WILL DEPEND ON LARGE PART ON HOW FAR NORTH THE SURFACE BOUNDARY MOVES. THERE IS A BIT OF UNCERTAINTY REGARDING THIS ISSUE AND THE ETA PUSHES THE BOUNDARY FURTHER INLAND BY 12Z TUESDAY THAN THE GFS...NGM...OR RUC. THE GFS...ETA...AND NGM ALL PLACE A SURFACE LOW NEAR OR OVER THE AREA BY 18Z. THE GFS AND ETA ARE MOST BELIEVABLE WITH THE LOW SOMEWHERE BETWEEN CHAMBERS COUNTY OR SW LA. THE MODEL CONSENSUS IS THAT THE FAR INLAND COUNTIES WILL NOT SEE AS MUCH RAINFALL AS THE AREAS CLOSER TO THE COAST. MORE THAN LIKELY THE BEST RAINFALL WILL OCCUR ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM LFK TO HOUSTON TO VCT...I.E. THE HIGHWAY 59 CORRIDOR. JUST AS OCCURRED EARLIER TODAY. WILL KEEP THE CURRENT FORECAST AS IS. THE POPS LOOK GOOD AND THE TEMPERATURES ARE ON TRACK. THERE IS SOME REASON TO UPDATE THE HOURLY TEMPERATURE GRIDS...BUT WILL KEEP IT THE SAME GIVEN THE UNCERTAINTY CONCERNING HOW FAR INLAND THE COASTAL WARM FRONT WILL GET INTO THE INLAND COUNTIES. THE CURRENT HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK AND FLOOD WATCH ARE ALSO ON TRACK. PL-40 && .AVIATION... CEILINGS HAVE COME UP BUT THIS WILL PROBABLY BE SHORT LIVED. OUTFLOW BOUNDARY STILL HUNG UP OFFSHORE THOUGH OUR WIND PROFILE HAS A VERY SHARP DISCONTINUITY BETWEEN 1-2KFT. THE WINDS HAVE GONE MORE SOUTHWESTERLY AT 1KFT...BUT CRP VWP STILL SHOWING NORTHEAST WINDS OF 20KTS AT 1KFT. THE WEAK MESO-HIGH BETWEEN SGR-11R-VCT SHOULD DISSIPATE AFTER MIDNIGHT. EXPECT TO SEE CEILINGS FLUCTUATING BETWEEN 1300-2500 FT MOST OF THE NIGHT. MOISTURE POOLED 1.95-2.10 PRECIPITABLE WATER SO EXPECTING A THICK CLOUD DECK WITH TOPS NEAR 5KFT AND MULTI DECKED ABOVE. THE KEY IS WHEN THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY DISSIPATES OR LIFTS BACK NORTH AND INLAND. HAVE HIT THE TERMINALS WITH SHOWERS VCSH AFTER 06Z FOR PREVAILING. LOOKS AS THOUGH THE BEST CHANCES FOR WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE 11-18Z. FRONTAL PASSAGE AND DRYING QUICKLY IN THE WAKE 12-15Z CLL...18-24Z IAH-GLS. && .HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLOOD WATCH ALL OF SE TX TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. SCA 00 TO 60 NM HIGH ISLAND TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL. SCA GALVESTON AND MATAGORDA BAYS ON TUESDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... COLLEGE STATION (CLL) 66 67 51 63 43 / 70 70 20 05 00 HOUSTON (IAH) 68 73 54 65 45 / 80 80 30 05 00 GALVESTON (GLS) 72 78 60 66 51 / 80 80 30 05 00 &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 405 PM CST MON NOV 1 2004 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-021200- AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-BRAZOS-BURLESON-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND-GALVESTON- GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON-JACKSON-LIBERTY-MADISON-MATAGORDA-MONTGOMERY- POLK-SAN JACINTO-TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER-WASHINGTON-WHARTON- 405 PM CST MON NOV 1 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. ...FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT... ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT... .DAY ONE..TONIGHT. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AND MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS TONIGHT. THIS ACTIVITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER WEST TEXAS/SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. AS THIS SYSTEM MOVES EAST AND INTERACTS WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS...WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...ARE POSSIBLE. FLOODING OF STREETS...FEEDER ROADS... AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS IS POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT EXPERIENCED THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL THIS AFTERNOON. SEVERE WEATHER MAY ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE STORMS WHICH ARE EXPECTED LATER TONIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY MORNING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TOTALS THROUGH TUESDAY WILL LIKELY BE 1 TO 2 INCHES...BUT ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR FLOODING WILL LIKELY BE AREAS EAST OF HIGHWAY 59. ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS. RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL GRADUALLY END FROM WEST TO EAST AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES OUT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT.
The Houston radar (KHGX), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:44 UTC.
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Widespread street flooding in and around League City.
Water over the roads in the Oak Hollow Subdivision.
Flooding in Palacios.
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: 5425319, 5425381, 5425382.