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 22, 3:11 AM CST, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 311 AM CST MON NOV 22 2004 .DISCUSSION... HEAVY RAIN THIS MORNING IN THE INTERFACE BETWEEN THE COLD FRONT NEAR GGG-ACT-SJT LINE AND LEADING EDGE OF WARMER AIR INLAND ALONG THE COAST. STORMS ARE FORMING DUE TO LOW LEVEL ISENTROPIC WARMING AND STRONG LIFT IN ADVANCE OF AN UPPER LOW APPROACHING SLOWLY FROM CA. FF WATCH CONTINUES FOR HILL COUNTRY AND ALONG-EAST OF IH35 CORRIDOR. THERE IS PLENTY OF FUEL TO WORK WITH...PWAT VALUES ARE HIGH...1.3 WEST TO 1.7 EAST. SFC RIDGE IN OK WILL ANCHOR COLD FRONT IN PLACE TODAY...PERHAPS EVEN SHOVE IT A FEW MILES SWD. ISENTROPIC LIFTING WILL PERSIST...WINDS AT/ABOVE 925MB ARE SLY AND WILL REMAIN SO. ALSO...DUE TO COLD TEMPS ALOFT TODAY...H5 VALUES -13 WEST...LAPSE RATES ARE STEEP AND CAPES BY AFTN WILL BE IN 1500 RANGE. MENTIONED BOTH HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE THRU THIS EVENING. EVENT SO FAR BEST HANDLED BY GFS. ETA AGAIN TOO DRY IN SC TX AND SEVERLY UNDERESTIMATING RAINFALL. POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES INTO TUE. SFC LOW WILL FORM BY EARLY TUE IN WRN TX AND BEGIN TO DRAG A DRY LINE ACROSS SC TX IN THE AFTN. THIS COULD ALSO RESULT IN SOME SEVERE STORMS AS WELL AS HEAVY RAINFALL. END OF THIS EVENT APPEARS TO BE TUE EVENING...WITH MUCH COLDER AIR MOVING INTO SC TX EARLY WED MORNING. LOWS WILL FALL INTO THE 30S AND 40S BY THU MORNING. APPEARS AT THIS TIME WE WILL BE GETTING A BREAK ON THE RAIN...AT LEAST INTO THE HOLIDAY AND WEEKEND. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 69 62 70 50 / 90 80 70 0 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 69 62 70 48 / 90 80 70 0 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 73 60 72 46 / 50 50 30 0 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 71 65 70 48 / 90 70 60 0 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FFA THRU 4 PM THIS AFTN ALONG AND EAST OF MOUNTAIN HOME TO PEARSALL LINE. && 09/04
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
255 AM CST MON NOV 22 2004
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0253 AM FLOOD AUSTIN 30.31N 97.75W
11/22/2004 TRAVIS TX BROADCAST MEDIA
NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED IN AND AROUND THE CITY OF AUSTIN
DUE TO WATER OVER THE ROADS.
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PMThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The San Antonio River near Elmendorf crested at 50.76 ft at 0730CST on November 23, where flood stage is 35 ft.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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