2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 4, 3:09 AM CST, 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED TO ADD FLOOD WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 405 AM CDT MON OCT 4 2004 .DISCUSSION... NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO FORM ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS THIS MORNING AS SHORT WAVE ENERGY INTERACTS WITH INCREASE MOISTURE AND MID LEVEL INSTABILITY. BEST PARAMETERS FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS.. SOME AREAS WILL RECEIVE HEAVY RAINFALL WITH AMOUNTS BETWEEN ONE AND THREE INCHES. WE HAVE DECIDED TO ISSUE A FLOOD WATCH FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS DUE TO STORM TRAINING...EVEN THOUGH PW VALUES ARE LESS THAN 1.5 AND STORM MOTIONS WILL BE DECENT. ADDITIONAL STORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON/THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT ENTERS THE REGION FROM THE NORTHWEST. MODELS ARE HAVING SOME DIFFICULTIES DETERMINING THE TIMING OF THE FRONT. BASED ON THE CURRENT POSITION OF THE FRONT ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS AND THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE....AND THE FAIRLY WEAK PUSH BEHIND IT...BELIEVE THE FRONT WILL NOT CROSS THE RED RIVER UNTIL LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL BE MORE OF A FACTOR FOR STORM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING. STORMS SHOULD NOT BE AS NUMEROUS TUESDAY WITH DEVELOPING TROUGH STILL IN SOUTHWEST U.S. AND WEAK RIDGING OVER NORTH TEXAS. HOWEVER...WILL STILL KEEP CHANCE POPS IN PLACE DUE TO STALLED BOUNDARY ACROSS THE REGION. WILL SEE SLIGHTLY BETTER RAIN CHANCES WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WITH DIFLUENT FLOW ALOFT. MODELS ARE A LITTLE SLOWER WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THE TROUGH AXIS AND SOME CHANCE POPS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY. RAIN CHANCES WILL DECREASE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AS TROUGH AXIS MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. LOOKING BEYOND THIS FORECAST CYCLE...AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN MAY CONTINUE FOR NORTH TEXAS NEXT WEEK WITH ANOTHER POWERFUL SYSTEM PROGGED BY THE GFS TO MOVE ONSHORE MONDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 77 62 77 63 / 70 40 40 40 WACO, TX 81 64 78 64 / 60 50 50 50 PARIS, TX 77 61 76 60 / 70 40 40 30 DENTON, TX 76 61 76 62 / 90 30 40 40 MCKINNEY, TX 77 62 76 62 / 90 40 40 30 DALLAS, TX 79 62 77 63 / 70 40 40 40 TERRELL, TX 81 63 78 62 / 60 50 40 30 CORSICANA, TX 81 64 77 64 / 60 50 50 40 TEMPLE, TX 81 65 78 64 / 50 50 60 50 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 400 PM CDT MONDAY FOR ZONES TXZ091>095... TXZ100>107...TXZ115>123. && 79
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 500 AM CDT MON OCT 4 2004 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-042200- 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- 500 AM CDT MON OCT 4 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20... NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH TEXAS TODAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST NUMEROUS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20 THIS MORNING...WITH THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING IN COVERAGE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON ALTHOUGH THE STORMS WILL BE FAST MOVING...THEY WILL BE EFFICIENT RAIN PRODUCERS AND TRAIN OVER THE SAME AREA...AND THIS COULD LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. ALONG WITH THE HEAVY RAIN THREAT...A FEW STORMS MAY BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ALSO PRESENT A HAZARD. A COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE RED RIVER THIS EVENING AND WILL PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. ALTHOUGH SOME HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE...THE THREAT OF WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING WILL NOT BE AS GREAT DUE TO A DECREASE IN LIFT ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE EXITING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS...ALTHOUGH THE COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH BY THE WEEKEND. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY WEATHER HAZARDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20 TODAY...MAINLY FOR FLOODING CONCERNS. 79
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 136 AM CDT MON OCT 4 2004 TXZ091-092-040730- COOKE-MONTAGUE- 136 AM CDT MON OCT 4 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 136 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF MONTAGUE...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOWIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. FORESTBURG...MARYSVILLE...MONTAGUE...MUENSTER...NOCONA...RIGNGGOLD AND ST. JO ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA-SIZED HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 245 AM CDT MON OCT 4 2004 TXZ100-101-040845- JACK-YOUNG- 245 AM CDT MON OCT 4 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 240 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...NEAR GRAHAM AND LOVING...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE INTO JACK COUNTY. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. ANOTHER STRONG STORM NEAR ALBANY WILL ENTER YOUNG COUNTY AFTER 3 AM. 25
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 72 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:39 UTC.
2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck two homes, causing moderate electrical damage to one, and blowing a hole in the roof of the other.
At least four cars were stranded in high water in town.
At least 8 roads were temporarily closed by high water. There was one high water rescue and 5 cars were abandoned in 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: 5427050, 5427047, 5427048, 5427049, 5427051.