2 flash 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 20, 9:56 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 956 PM CST SAT NOV 20 2004 DISCUSSION... QUITE A BUSY NIGHT WITH THE STORMS AND SUCH. ACTIVITY OVER THE NRN ZONES HAVE LIFTED OUT AND THE AFOREMENTIONED STORMS TO OUR WSW ARE STILL MAKING THEIR PRESENCE FELT. SOME ADDITIONAL FLARE UP OF PCPN NOTED FURTHER WEST...BUT STILL HAVING SOME PROBLEMS LOCATING A REA- SON (I.E. S/W). WILL LIKELY MAKE A FEW TWEAKS TO THE CURRENT ZONES (MAINLY FOR OVERNITE POPS: SLIGHTLY LOWERING THEM TO THE NORTH AND INCREASING OVER THE WEST). STILL OPTING TO LEAVE THE MENTION OF AN FFA/HEAVY RAIN OUT OF THE ZONES FOR NOW. 41 && .HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...SCEC GULF WATERS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... COLLEGE STATION (CLL) 66 74 66 76 66 / 60 60 60 50 50 HOUSTON (IAH) 68 76 67 77 67 / 50 50 40 30 30 GALVESTON (GLS) 72 78 72 78 71 / 40 50 20 20 20 &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 435 AM CST SAT NOV 20 2004 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-211200- 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- 435 AM CST SAT NOV 20 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. ...HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS WEEKEND AND ON INTO MONDAY AND TUESDAY ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS... .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WARM FRONT PUSHING NORTH ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS ALONG WITH PASSING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE. WITH THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS...SOME FLOODING MAY BE POSSIBLE. ALSO...SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. A LONG DURATION FLOOD WATCH MAY BE ISSUED LATER TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THROUGH TUESDAY...WIDESPREAD RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WITH ISOLATED TOTALS APPROACHING 5 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE. WITH THE GROUND ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS NEARLY SATURATED...A FLOOD THREAT MAY DEVELOP. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS SUNDAY ON INTO MONDAY AND TUESDAY. THE MAIN THREAT WILL PROBABLY BE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS WEEKEND.
The Houston radar (KHGX), 156 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:14 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Widespread major flooding in Edna and Ganado with aerial rescues. Only Ganado's main street passable. 79 homes and businesses received minor or major flood damage with 56 of these facilities in Ganado.
Widespread major flooding with evacuations in Louise with more than 200 El Campo residents being rescued by boat or high-water vehicles. Numerous roads (including two sections of Highway 59 between Wharton and El Campo and between El Campo and the Jackson County line) and bridges were flooded and impassable. Countywide, 59 homes sustained major damage and 225 homes received minor damage.
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: 5425505, 5425581.