Weather Records on 14 September 2004

762 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 14 September 2004. Highest significance: Bricelyn, US.

Key Facts for 14 September 2004

On 14 September 2004, 762 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
413 were record highs and 188 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 1 were all-time records, 18 monthly and 743 daily.
Bricelyn set an all-time record daily precipitation of 234.2 mm (9.2 in) on 14 September 2004.
Across 159 earlier years (1814 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 439 records.

Record Map

762 stations

762 station records on 14 September 2004 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 14 September 2004: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Bricelyn	United States	Record daily precipitation	234.2 mm (9.2 in)	78 of 100 (Major)
Rochester Intl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	102.6 mm (4.0 in)	77 of 100 (Major)
Spencer 1 N	United States	Record daily precipitation	116.3 mm (4.6 in)	76 of 100 (Major)
Sioux Rapids	United States	Record daily precipitation	133.6 mm (5.3 in)	71 of 100 (Major)
Tolt S Fk Rsvr	United States	Record daily precipitation	144.8 mm (5.7 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Los Pilares	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Bridgeport	United States	Record daily precipitation	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Weifang	China	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Bonneville Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.9 mm (2.2 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Huimin	China	Record daily precipitation	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Baring	United States	Record daily precipitation	74.7 mm (2.9 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Xuzhou	China	Record daily precipitation	82.5 mm (3.2 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Akron	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Rio Lagartos	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Santa Maria del Rio (Dge)	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Jokkmokk	Sweden	Record low maximum temperature	3.0 C (37.4 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Boonville 1S	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Kilauea 1134	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Reserve	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Nemours (Ghazaouet)	Algeria	Record high maximum temperature	29.5 C (85.1 F)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Wakkanai	Japan	Record daily precipitation	71.9 mm (2.8 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Forest City 2 NNE	United States	Record daily precipitation	143.8 mm (5.7 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
La Begoa	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	5.0 C (41.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Lamar	United States	Record high maximum temperature	37.8 C (100.0 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Moore Haven Lock 1	United States	Record high minimum temperature	26.7 C (80.1 F)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Xochitlan Todos Santos	Mexico	Record high minimum temperature	20.0 C (68.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Gage AP	United States	Record high minimum temperature	21.1 C (70.0 F)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Agartala	India	Record daily precipitation	99.1 mm (3.9 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Kitamiesashi	Japan	Record daily precipitation	68.8 mm (2.7 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Charlevoix	United States	Record high maximum temperature	30.6 C (87.1 F)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Jinan	China	Record daily precipitation	45.2 mm (1.8 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Tenango de Doria	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	35.0 C (95.0 F)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Wells	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.9 mm (1.7 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
La Grange	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Etla	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	33.9 C (93.0 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Ojo Caliente	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	31.5 mm (1.2 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Gunnesbyn	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	28.2 mm (1.1 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Khorog	Tajikistan	Record high minimum temperature	19.1 C (66.4 F)	36 of 100 (Notable)
San Ildelfonso Villa Alta	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	11.7 C (53.1 F)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Wray	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Kingsley Dam	United States	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	35 of 100 (Notable)
Neligh	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	34 of 100 (Routine)
Valkenburg-1	Netherlands	Record daily precipitation	35.9 mm (1.4 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
O'Neill	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.4 mm (1.7 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Hayward Rs	United States	Record high minimum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Las Bayas	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	-8.3 C (17.1 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Kjahta	Russia	Record high minimum temperature	12.8 C (55.0 F)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Petersburg 61 Brg	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Shiprock	United States	Record high minimum temperature	19.4 C (66.9 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Marree Comparison	Australia	Record low minimum temperature	0.7 C (33.3 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Palenque (Dge)	Mexico	Record low minimum temperature	18.9 C (66.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Santiago Yeche	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	54.9 mm (2.2 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Jinnah Intl	Pakistan	Record low maximum temperature	29.5 C (85.1 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Lowman	United States	Record low maximum temperature	10.0 C (50.0 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Newcastle	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.9 mm (2.8 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Sault Ste Marie Sanderson Fld	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	30 of 100 (Routine)
La Crosse Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Teocaltiche (Dge)	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	28.4 mm (1.1 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Chicontepec de Tejeda (Smn)	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	40.0 C (104.0 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Osmond	United States	Record daily precipitation	85.6 mm (3.4 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

762 records

Records set or tied on 14 September 2004 by type: Highest daily maximum 202, Lowest daily maximum 59, Highest daily minimum 211, Lowest daily minimum 129, Heaviest daily rainfall 160, Deepest snow cover 1.

Records on 14 September 2004 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	202
Lowest daily maximum	59
Highest daily minimum	211
Lowest daily minimum	129
Heaviest daily rainfall	160
Heaviest daily snowfall	0
Deepest snow cover	1

Records on 14 September 2004 by timescale: all-time 1, monthly 18, daily 743.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

526 broken records

Margins by which the 526 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 117.4. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

14 September 2004

Top 20 records on 14 September 2004 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
14 September 2004	Bricelyn, US	all-time rain	234.2 mm (9.2 in)	117.4 mm (4.6 in)	41 years	78 of 100 (Major)
14 September 2004	Rochester Intl AP, US	daily rain	102.6 mm (4.0 in)	65.3 mm (2.6 in)	90 years	77 of 100 (Major)
14 September 2004	Spencer 1 N, US	daily rain	116.3 mm (4.6 in)	80.5 mm (3.2 in)	89 years	76 of 100 (Major)
14 September 2004	Sioux Rapids, US	monthly rain	133.6 mm (5.3 in)	53.1 mm (2.1 in)	53 years	71 of 100 (Major)
14 September 2004	Tolt S Fk Rsvr, US	monthly rain	144.8 mm (5.7 in)	69.1 mm (2.7 in)	3 years	55 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Los Pilares, MX	daily rain	59.9 mm (2.4 in)	45.9 mm (1.8 in)	31 years	53 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Bridgeport, US	daily rain	34.3 mm (1.4 in)	17.3 mm (0.7 in)	85 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Weifang, CN	daily rain	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	61.5 mm (2.4 in)	22 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Bonneville Dam, US	daily rain	54.9 mm (2.2 in)	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	49 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Huimin, CN	daily rain	50.5 mm (2.0 in)	33.8 mm (1.3 in)	45 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Baring, US	daily rain	74.7 mm (2.9 in)	62.3 mm (2.5 in)	17 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Xuzhou, CN	daily rain	82.5 mm (3.2 in)	58.3 mm (2.3 in)	29 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Akron, US	daily rain	63.5 mm (2.5 in)	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	26 years	47 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Rio Lagartos, MX	daily rain	63.8 mm (2.5 in)	50.6 mm (2.0 in)	24 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Santa Maria del Rio (Dge), MX	daily rain	49.8 mm (2.0 in)	39.9 mm (1.6 in)	30 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Jokkmokk, SE	daily low max	3.0 C (37.4 F)	2.0 C (3.6 F)	114 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Boonville 1S, US	daily rain	43.7 mm (1.7 in)	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	66 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Kilauea 1134, US	daily high min	23.3 C (73.9 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	90 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Reserve, US	daily high min	25.0 C (77.0 F)	1.1 C (2.0 F)	103 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
14 September 2004	Nemours (Ghazaouet), DZ	daily high max	29.5 C (85.1 F)	0.5 C (0.9 F)	123 years	42 of 100 (Notable)

Significance is a score from 0 to 100 combining margin, the age of the old record and the length of the station's record. How it is computed.

The Same Date in Other Years

1814 to 2004

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1814 to 2004. 2004 had 762 records.

Counts for years before the ledger starts come from the same station rules.

Records on 09-14 in each year
Year	Records
1814	1
1828	1
1830	1
1831	1
1833	1
1835	1
1837	3
1848	1
1854	1
1861	1
1867	2
1868	2
1870	1
1872	1
1873	3
1874	1
1876	2
1879	1
1880	1
1882	1
1886	5
1887	3
1888	1
1889	1
1890	1
1891	2
1893	1
1894	2
1895	2
1896	1
1897	2
1898	4
1899	2
1900	2
1901	11
1902	12
1903	34
1904	13
1905	12
1906	14
1907	7
1908	16
1909	31
1910	9
1911	61
1912	50
1913	36
1914	31
1915	116
1916	13
1917	30
1918	35
1919	166
1920	108
1921	38
1922	77
1923	279
1924	95
1925	206
1926	49
1927	455
1928	116
1929	185
1930	197
1931	652
1932	211
1933	365
1934	181
1935	636
1936	609
1937	406
1938	335
1939	1,007
1940	415
1941	227
1942	186
1943	281
1944	293
1945	691
1946	379
1947	718
1948	504
1949	640
1950	327
1951	422
1952	469
1953	680
1954	275
1955	469
1956	479
1957	490
1958	254
1959	702
1960	599
1961	956
1962	339
1963	592
1964	658
1965	640
1966	888
1967	355
1968	369
1969	429
1970	1,351
1971	549
1972	409
1973	854
1974	622
1975	880
1976	547
1977	572
1978	663
1979	957
1980	543
1981	486
1982	1,012
1983	623
1984	855
1985	736
1986	716
1987	856
1988	781
1989	1,127
1990	1,088
1991	999
1992	677
1993	2,279
1994	1,143
1995	904
1996	1,091
1997	786
1998	2,049
1999	854
2000	997
2001	813
2002	899
2003	821
2004	762
2005	878
2006	1,009
2007	672
2008	1,437
2009	843
2010	938
2011	1,132
2012	634
2013	760
2014	758
2015	888
2016	1,387
2017	677
2018	632
2019	524
2020	671
2021	419
2022	612
2023	507
2024	838
2025	527
2026	783

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Data for records on 2004-09-14: CSV or JSON. Field meanings are on the data page.

Sources: Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-Daily). Records are computed by World Extreme Weather Monitor and are not official NOAA products. (US Government open data (NOAA NCEI)) Made with Natural Earth. Public domain map data. Borders are Natural Earth's de facto depiction. Data as of 2026-10-17 (17 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-16. Last revised 16 October 2026 (2026-10-16).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	493
20 to 40	22
40 to 60	5
60 to 80	4
80 to 100	1
100 to 120	1