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 Oct 23, 6:12 PM CST, 6 hours 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 712 PM CDT SAT OCT 23 2004 .UPDATE... THIS EVENING THE LATEST MSAS ANALYSIS DEPICTED A THERMAL SFC LOW OVER THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM ZAPATA TO FREER AND TILDEN ALONG THE THERMALLY INDUCED SFC BOUNDARY. THIS ACTIVITY WILL WANE WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING AND STAY SOUTH OF THE CWFA. ONLY EXPECT ISOLATED SHOWERS FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT AS THE PACIFIC MOISTURE PLUME REMAINS OVER SOUTH TEXAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP SUNDAY AFTERNOON...IN THE VICINITY OF OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. HAVE ALSO MADE CHANGES TO THE FCST FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY. UPPER RIDGE OVER THE GULF WILL BUILD NORTHWARD OVER TEXAS MONDAY AND TUESDAY CAPPING CONVECTION. THUS WILL LOWER/REMOVE POPS FOR THOSE TWO DAYS AND BRING FCST IN LINE WITH CURRENT MODEL SOLUTIONS AND ADJACENT FCST OFFICES. && .PREV DISCUSSION... THE FIRST OF TWO UPPER-AIR SHORTWAVES HAS MOVED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND IS EXITING EASTWARD. MOVING ALONG BEHIND THIS WAVE IS ITS ASSOCIATED CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WHICH IS NOW OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES EXTENDING EAST INTO EAST TEXAS AND LOUISIANA. THE SECOND AND LESS ACTIVE SHORTWAVE IS CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS THE REGION PRODUCING ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. BEHIND THE SHORTWAVE...NORTHWEST WINDS PREVAIL...AS SEEN BY DOPPLER RADAR VAD WINDS AND THE WIND PROFILER OBSERVATION NETWORK ACROSS TEXAS. CLEARING SKIES ARE BEING OBSERVED ACROSS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE...HOWEVER THE SOUTH CENTRAL SECTION WILL REMAIN SOMEWHAT CLOUDY. IR AND WV SATELLITE LOOPS SHOW A MODEL GUIDANCE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE CURRENT TRENDS AND FORECAST. BRINGING YET ANOTHER SHORTWAVE ACROSS TEXAS ON SUNDAY. THIS SETS UP SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WHICH WILL RESULT IN WARMER TEMPERATURES AND DRYER CONDITIONS. HOWEVER...AT THE SURFACE... DEEP MOISTURE WILL PROVIDE THE FUEL NEEDED FOR AFTERNOON HEATING CONVECTIVE TYPE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS WILL RESULT IN PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES THROUGH THE WEEK AND CONTINUED CHANCES OF RAIN. MODELS MOVE A CANADIAN AIRMASS COLD FRONT INTO TEXAS LATE IN THE WORKWEEK AND THIS WILL SHUTOFF THE PRECIPITATION CHANCE AND BRING COOLER TEMPERATURES. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS WEEKEND AND INTO THE UPCOMING WORKWEEK... AFTERNOON HEATING AND DEEP LOW LEVEL MOISTURE OFF THE GULF WILL CONTINUE THE CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION. A STRONG BAJA/PACIFIC TAPE ACROSS MEXICO AND INTO TEXAS WILL PROVIDE MID/UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY SKY CONDITIONS ALONG WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. COOLER TEMPERATURES ALOFT DUE TO THE SHORTWAVE PASSAGE WILL RESULT IN DAYTIME HIGHS IN THE 80S NEAR 90 AND NIGHTTIME LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S INTO THE 70S. LATER IN THE WORKWEEK...LOOKING FOR A COLD FRONT WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES AND MORE NORMAL LATE OCTOBER WEATHER. && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 13/04
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 907 PM CDT SAT OCT 23 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-241100- 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- 907 PM CDT SAT OCT 23 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS. HOWEVER...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS AN OCCASIONAL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The San Marcos River below Luling crested at 27.70 ft at 1130 CST on Oct. 24, 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, 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: 5424836.