2 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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 22, 8:30 PM CST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 930 PM CDT FRI OCT 22 2004 .PUBLIC UPDATE... CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE THIS EVENING AS CONVECTION HAS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP AND MOVE SLOWLY EAST...WITH INDIVIDUAL CELLS WORKING NE. AGREE WITH SPC THAT THE BIGGEST THREAT FOR ANY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE ACROSS OUR SRN ZONES...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM HAMILTON TO CENTERVILLE...WHERE CAPE AND INSTABILITY REMAIN PRETTY HIGH. AIR MASS FURTHER NORTH HAS BEEN STABILIZED SOMEWHAT WITH EARLIER CONVECTION. AM CONCERNED ABOUT SLOW PROGRESSION OF COLD FRONT AND TRAINING OF HEAVY RAINFALL S. WL HOLD OFF ON ANY FLOOD WATCH ATTM AS MOST LOCATIONS SHOULD BE ABLE TO HANDLE QUITE A BIT OF RAINFALL. STILL...NORMALLY FLOOD PRONE AREAS MAY SEE SOME PROBLEMS OVERNIGHT. TEMPS LOOK GOOD ON CURRENT FORECAST. HAVE ADJUSTED HOURLY TRENDS A BIT...BUT MOST OF THE FORECAST HAS BEEN LEFT ALONE. 80 && .AVIATION... 550 PM NO ARGUMENT WITH CWSU/AVIATION DISC THAT N TX TRACON/TAFS TO CONTINUE SEEING PERIODS OF -SHRA/-RA OVRNGT...WITH SCT...EMBEDDED TSRA THROUGH 15Z SAT...AS MOIST/STRONG SWLY FLOW ALOFT CONTS AND 25-35KT LLJ OCCURS AHEAD OF CD FNT NOW PUSHING THROUGH NE CO/NW KS/CENTRAL NE ATTM. WILL SEE GENERALLY VFR CIGS/WX CONDS...WITH TEMPO/PROB30 HEAVIER TSRA/MVFR CIG SCENARIO DURING THIS TIME. CD FNT ARRIVES BY 18Z SAT. THROUGH 18Z...OUTSIDE OF VRB 10-25KT FLOW WITH TSRA...SHOULD SEE PREVAILING SSWLY FLOW BY THEN...SHOULD SEE A SHIFT OF SLY 8-14 KTS...SHIFTING WLY 10-20 KTS BY 18Z SAT...THEN NWLY ARND 10 KTS BY 00Z SUN. 05/ && .PREV DISCUSSION... 336 PM CDT MODELS ARE CONSISTENT IN DEVELOPMENT OF PRECIP AND ACCELERATING IT EASTWARD THROUGH THE FIRST 24 HOURS...WITH THE GFS APPEARING TO BE THE SLOWEST OF THE GROUP. OUR FORECAST FOLLOWS THIS SOLUTION MORE THAN THE OTHERS...ALTHOUGH WE ARE EVEN SLOWER WITH THE PRECIP THROUGH TONIGHT. AFTER THAT...THE QUESTION REMAINS AS TO THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE FRONT/BOUNDARY THAT IS PROGGED TO MOVE INTO OUR SOUTHERN ZONES. WE WILL PUSH IT TO OUR SRN CWA BORDER SATURDAY NIGHT...THEN BRING IT BACK NORTH SUNDAY ALONG WITH RAIN. PWS HAVE INCREASED OVER THE REGION AND WE ANTICIPATE SOME OF THE STORMS TO BE EFFICIENT RAIN MAKERS...ESPECIALLY OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE CWA TONIGHT. HOWEVER...WE HAVE REFRAINED FROM ISSUING A WATCH AT THIS TIME. FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE VALUES ARE HIGH ENOUGH DUE TO LACK OF RECENT RAINS...AND WE FEEL THAT ANY PROBLEMS WILL BE ISOLATED AND LOCALIZED...NOT WIDESPREAD. URBAN AREAS...ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING WITH THE COMMUTE...WILL LIKELY SEE PROBLEMS IN THE USUAL AREAS. FOR NOW...ONGOING CONVECTION WILL ALSO CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THIS EVENING AS IT SPREAD EAST ACROSS THE REGION. THROUGH EARLY EVENING...WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG AND WEST OF I-35...MOVING INTO EASTERN PORTIONS BY LATE EVENING. THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK LOOKS UNSETTLED AS SOUTHWEST FLOW REMAINS CLOSE AT HAND WITH PERIODIC WAVES MOVING THROUGH AND AFFECTING OUR REGION. TEMPS WILL REMAIN NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH NO SIGNIFICANT COOL DOWN EXPECTED. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 67 82 58 83 / 100 20 10 20 WACO, TX 68 83 60 84 / 80 30 20 20 PARIS, TX 67 81 55 81 / 100 20 10 20 DENTON, TX 65 82 57 82 / 100 20 10 20 MCKINNEY, TX 67 82 57 82 / 100 20 10 20 DALLAS, TX 67 83 60 83 / 100 20 10 20 TERRELL, TX 67 83 60 83 / 80 20 10 20 CORSICANA, TX 69 83 60 84 / 80 30 20 20 TEMPLE, TX 69 83 65 84 / 80 40 20 20 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. && 42
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 940 PM CDT FRI OCT 22 2004 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-230900- ANDERSON-BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DELTA- DENTON-EASTLAND-ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON- HENDERSON-HILL-HOOD-HOPKINS-HUNT-JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMAR-LAMPASAS- LEON-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILAM-MILLS-MONTAGUE-NAVARRO-PALO PINTO- PARKER-RAINS-ROBERTSON-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-VAN ZANDT- WISE-YOUNG- 940 PM CDT FRI OCT 22 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WITH WINDS TO 60 MPH...MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL TO ONE INCH...FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT ACROSS THOSE PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS SOUTHWEST OF A COMANCHE...HAMILTON...WACO... TEMPLE LINE. MINOR STREET OR URBAN FLOODING MAY OCCUR AS WELL ACROSS THIS RISK AREA. ELSEWHERE...THERE REMAINS A CHANCE OF NON-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT...AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE CONTINUES INTERACTING WITH A MOIST AND MODESTLY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A COLD FRONT WILL STALL OVER CENTRAL TEXAS BY SATURDAY NIGHT...THEN WAVER AROUND NORTH TEXAS AS A STATIONARY FRONT INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...AS MOIST SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT AND OCCASIONAL DISTURBANCES AFFECT THE REGION. THUS...CHANCES OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED OVERNIGHT SOUTHWEST OF A HAMILTON...WACO...BELTON LINE.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 555 PM CDT FRI OCT 22 2004 TXZ095-105>107-230000- DELTA-HOPKINS-HUNT-LAMAR- 555 PM CDT FRI OCT 22 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 555 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WOLFE CITY...OR 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF COMMERCE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. COMMERCE...COOPER...CUNNINGHAM...DEPORT AND SULPHUR SPRINGS ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. PLEASE CLOSELY MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS THUNDERSTORM. 65/DD
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1035 PM CDT FRI OCT 22 2004 TXZ156>158-230500- BELL-CORYELL-LAMPASAS- 1035 PM CDT FRI OCT 22 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 1035 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG TO SEVERE WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUCHANAN DAM...OR NEAR LLANO... ...MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. COPPERAS COVE...FORT HOOD...HARKER HEIGHTS...HOLLAND...KEMPNER... KILLEEN...LAMPASAS...NOLANVILLE AND SALADO ARE POTENTIALLY IN THE PATH OF THIS CLUSTER OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS WILL BE MONITORED CLOSELY BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH FOR ANY FUTURE WARNINGS.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1119 PM CDT FRI OCT 22 2004
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1112 PM FLASH FLOOD WACO 31.57N 97.18W
10/22/2004 MCLENNAN TX TRAINED SPOTTER
MINOR STREET FLOODING REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC. HIGH WATER
WAS REPORTED ON NEW ROAD NEAR FRANKLIN. 2.52 OF RAIN
MEASURED AT KXXV-TVThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding was reported along Highway 6 west of Waco. 5.75 inches of rain was reported 7 miles southwest of Waco.
Numerous roads were closed due to high water.
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, October 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: 5427054, 5427055.