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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 25, 7:39 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 839 PM CDT MON OCT 25 2004 .UPDATE... WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SPREADING FROM THE NORTHERN CONCHO VALLEY INTO THE BIG COUNTRY AT MID EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAD WEAKENED SINCE 6 PM...THOUGH WERE STILL PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY BEING SUSTAINED FROM A LOW LEVEL JET REACHING 30KTS...PER KSJT VAD WIND PROFILER. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE CROSSING THE RIO GRANDE INTO VAL VERDE COUNTY...HEADED TOWARD THE NORTHEAST. WITH INCREASING LOW LEVEL JET AND STRONG 250 MB DIVERGENCE PERSISTING OVERNIGHT...EXPECT STORMS TO CONTINUE. PRESENT FORECAST IN GOOD SHAPE. ONLY VERY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS MADE. 14 && .PREV DISCUSSION... OBVIOUS MAIN CONCERN WILL BE HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL THROUGH TOMORROW EVENING. CURRENTLY...WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWING SOUTHWEST FLOW WITH PACIFIC MOISTURE STREAMING OVER OUR AREA. PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS STILL IN PLACE WITH MID 60F DEWPOINTS AND PW NEAR 2 INCHES ON 12Z DRT SOUNDING AND 1 INCH ON 12Z MAF SOUNDING. A COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO SAG JUST NORTH OF LBB TO CDS. 12Z GFS AND ETA MODEL RUNS SOMEWHAT CONSISTENT IN THE SHORT TERM WITH INCREASING THE LLJ AS A UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES OUT OF MEXICO OVER THE AREA TONIGHT. THIS WITH THE FRONT SHOULD CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL TO DEVELOP MAINLY ACROSS OUR WESTERN AREAS AND THEN INTO THE BIG COUNTRY TUESDAY MORNING. WE DECIDED TO GO WITH A FFA FOR THE WHOLE COUNTY AREA AS OUR SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AREAS HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED SOME RAINFALL AND THE MAIN HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED OVER OUR WESTERN AND NORTHERN AREAS. SOME THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY COULD AFFECT OUR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AREAS AS WELL. AFTER TUESDAY...KEEP SOME POPS AS MODELS CONTINUE TO HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME HANDLING THE TIMING OF ANY UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES THAT MOVE THROUGH THE AREA AS STRONG JET REMAINS OVER THE AREA. WE TREND POPS DOWN WED THROUGH THU AND THEN SLIGHT INCREASE AGAIN FRI AS POSSIBLE FRONT PUSHES INTO THE AREA. FRONT QUICKLY STALLS AND WASHES OUT SAT AND SUN. SUN INTO MON ANOTHER LOW POSSIBLY DEVELOPS IN SW KS WITH PACIFIC FRONT OR DRYLINE. WILL KEEP SOME POPS IN THE EASTERN AREAS...BUT ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE AS DRY SLOT MAY SET UP WHICH MAY DECREASE THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 4 PM TUESDAY FOR ALL ZONES. && 10
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 132 PM CDT MON OCT 25 2004 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-261900- BROWN TX-CALLAHAN TX-COKE TX-COLEMAN TX-CONCHO TX-CROCKETT TX- FISHER TX-HASKELL TX-IRION TX-JONES TX-KIMBLE TX-MASON TX- MCCULLOCH TX-MENARD TX-NOLAN TX-RUNNELS TX-SAN SABA TX-SCHLEICHER TX- SHACKELFORD TX-STERLING TX-SUTTON TX-TAYLOR TX-THROCKMORTON TX- TOM GREEN TX- 132 PM CDT MON OCT 25 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A TROPICAL-LIKE ATMOSPHERE WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ANY THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DEVELOP ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA LATER THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE FROM FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH TOMORROW NIGHT. FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN THE PRIMARY THREAT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 23/HUBER
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several cars were stranded in high water and water rescues had to be performed.
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: 5427078, 5427079.