3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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 Sep 14, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 330 PM CDT TUE SEP 14 2004 .DISCUSSION... 330 PM CDT UPDATED EARLY TO EXPAND POPS FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING PERIODS. SHORTWAVE HAS MANAGED TO SPLAY SCATTERED CONVECTION THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE CWA. NIGHTFALL WILL SPELL AN END TO MUCH OF THE ACTIVITY... THOUGH SHORTWAVE ENERGY WILL KEEP CHANCES OVERNIGHT...MAINLY SOUTH AND EAST WHERE ELEVATED MOISTURE IS BEST. SOME LINGERING PRECIP SE WEDNESDAY WITH RESIDUAL BOUNDARIES AND DEEPEST MOISTURE...BUT UPPER SUPPORT LACKING OVERALL. THEREAFTER... SUBSIDENCE ZONE TO THE WEST OF IVAN WILL LIKELY DIMINISH PRECIP AND BUMP UP WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON TEMPS. DESPITE AVAILABLE MOISTURE... FROPA WEDNESDAY NIGHT LOOKS TO BE DRY WITH LARGE-SCALE SUBSIDENCE. AFTER FROPA...MILD NIGHTS AND SUNNY WARM DAYS WILL MARK A WARMING TREND THAT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. RIDGE BUILDS INTO TEXAS AS IVAN HEADS UP EASTERN SEABOARD...AND TEXAS TEMPS SHOULD REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL. NEXT CHANCE FOR FROPA MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK... BUT HAVE CHOSEN TO FOREGO POPS FOR NOW. 25 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 73 93 71 90 / 30 0 0 0 WACO, TX 72 94 72 94 / 40 0 0 0 PARIS, TX 70 92 69 90 / 30 0 0 0 DENTON, TX 71 93 70 90 / 20 0 0 0 MCKINNEY, TX 71 93 70 90 / 20 0 0 0 DALLAS, TX 74 93 72 90 / 30 0 0 0 TERRELL, TX 73 92 71 91 / 40 20 0 0 CORSICANA, TX 73 93 71 93 / 40 20 0 0 TEMPLE, TX 72 94 72 94 / 40 20 20 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 330 PM CDT TUE SEP 14 2004 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-151100- 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- 330 PM CDT TUE SEP 14 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... ABUNDANT TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL INTERACT WITH A PASSING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS THIS EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED BUT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE STORMS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER EAST OF A BONHAM...WACO...TO LAMPASAS LINE AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY SOUTHEAST OF A KAUFMAN...WACO...TO LAMPASAS LINE. HEAVY RAIN AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN WEATHER HAZARDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:29 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A house under construction collapsed from high winds, trapping a worker inside. It took an hour to free him from the debris before he could be taken to a hospital. Some trees and power lines were also blown down.
A mobile home was unroofed in the FRF Estates. A telephone pole was blown down and the canopy over a rodeo arena was blown off. A fence around the arena was uprooted and blown away. Some trees were also blown down.
Lightning caused two house fires with minor damage to one and moderate damage to the other.
A large tree at the courthouse was blown down.
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, September 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: 5423850, 5423852, 5423853, 5423851.