1 funnel cloud, 1 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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 8, 2:45 PM CST, 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 345 PM CDT FRI OCT 8 2004 .DISCUSSION... WIDELY SCATTERED EVENING SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ASSOICATED WITH LOW PRESSURE TROF ALOFT FROM WEST TEXAS TO THE WESTERN GREAT PLAINS. SOUTHERN PART OF THIS TROF IS FORECAST TO SEPERATE FROM THE NORTHERN PART OF THE TROF ON SATURDAY AND DRIFT NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTH TEXAS OVER THE WEEKEND. BY SUNDAY NIGHT OR MONDAY...THE ENERGY ASSOCIATED WITH THE NORTHERN STREAM WESTERLIES...COMING FROM THE NORTHWEST...IS FORECAST TO TAKE THIS LOW ALOFT EAST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS WILL BRINGING LESS CLOUD COVER TO THE AREA FOR THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK ON MON AND TUE. WILL SHOW WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS SATURDAY AND WIDELY SCATTERED TO ISOLATED SHOWERS SUNDAY. BY MONDAY PARTLY CLOUDY TO MOSTLY SUNNY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED. STRONG H5 TO H3 TROF COMING FROM NORTHERN PLAINS LATE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY IS FORECAST TO AMPLIFY MARKEDLY IN THE EARLY TO MID PART OF NEXT WEEK...BRINGING NORTHWWEST FLOW ALOFT AND HELPING TO MOVE A COLD FRONT THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS LATE WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. ALTHOUGH NEXT WEEK LOOKS MOSTLY DRY...MENTIONED SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS WED NIGHT WITH THE COLD FRONT...FOLLOWED BY MORE STABLE CONDITIONS THU AND FRI. COOL EARLY MORNING LOWS ARE EXPECTED EARLY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY MORNING...WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS A LITTLE COOLER ALSO IN THE DAY. THE COOLER AND DRIER DAYS THU AND FRI ARE FORECAST TO CHANGE NEXT WEEKEND. INCREASING CLOUDINESS AND A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS IS EXPECTED THE WEEKEND OF THE 16TH AND 17TH...AS A LOW ALOFT MOVES OVER THE AREA FROM THE WEST. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 66 79 59 76 / 20 20 10 15 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 65 79 58 76 / 20 20 10 15 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 64 83 61 81 / 30 20 10 07 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 67 81 59 81 / 20 20 10 10 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 08/11
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 531 AM CDT FRI OCT 8 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-091100- 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- 531 AM CDT FRI OCT 8 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... AREAS OF FOG ALONG AND EAST OF THE ESCARPMENT WILL END BY MID MORNING. OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The public in Comstock reported a short-lived funnel cloud near Comstock. An observer noted that it "looked just like a small snake coming down." The funnel did not touch down.
Heavy rain re-developed over the saturated soils of Val Verde County in the afternoon of the 8th. Storm totals were generally between 1 and 2 inches, with up to 4 inches reported just north of Juno. Several rural roads, including FM189 and FM1024 were closed through the late afternoon 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: 5424711, 5424712.