1 lightning, 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 Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 6, 1:30 PM EST, 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 230 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2005 .DISCUSSION...SOUTH FLORIDA CONTINUES IN A LIGHT FLOW REGIME...AS THE AREA REMAINS SITUATED BETWEEN A TROUGH OVER THE SE STATES AND AN ATLANTIC RIDGE WELL TO OUR EAST. THIS PATTERN LOOKS TO CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST EARLY NEXT WEEK. GFS SHOWS THE ATLANTIC RIDGE BUILDING IN ACROSS CENTRAL FLORIDA DURING THE MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF NEXT WEEK...AS DOES THE ECMWF. WILL GO WITH THIS...BUT WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF THE ONSET OF THE EASTERLY FLOW IS DELAYED IN TIME. IT SEEMS THE MODELS HAVE BEEN SOMEWHAT TOO AGGRESSIVE IN BUILDING THE RIDGE INTO OUR AREA THIS SUMMER. LARGE SCALE FEATURES LOOK REMOVED FROM THE AREA FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. TWO LOW PRESSURE CENTERS TO OUR NORTH (ONE NEAR FL PANHANDLE AND THE OTHER OFF THE GA/SC COAST) WILL REMAIN NORTH WITH NO EXPECTED LOCAL IMPACT. THERE IS A NICE SPINNING UPPER LOW (CLEARLY VISIBLE IN NOT ONLY WATER VAPOR IMAGERY...BUT ALSO VIS SAT IMAGERY) NOW NEAR HISPANIOLA WHICH IS CHUGGING WEST- NORTHWESTWARD. AT A GLANCE...THE IMPRESSIVE SPIN IN VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY LOOKS RATHER OMINOUS. HOWEVER...THIS IS ONLY NOW UPPER LEVEL WITH NO SURFACE LOW PRESENT...AND GFS KEEPS THIS AN UPPER LEVEL FEATURE REMAINING POSITIONED TO OUR EAST. SO IT LOOKS AS THOUGH LOCAL DIURNAL MECHANISMS WILL BE OUR PLAYER THROUGH NEXT WEEK...MEANING SCATTERED AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY...DRIVEN BY SEA BREEZE CONVERGENCE. FAVORED AREAS WILL BE PRETTY MUCH ANYWHERE SUN-TUE AFTERNOON...THEN INTERIOR/GULF COAST WED AND BEYOND. && .MARINE...LIGHT FLOW REGIME WILL CONTINUE TO LEAD TO SEAS OF LESS THAN 2 FEET...EVEN NEARLY FLAT MANY PLACES. && .FIRE WEATHER...DEWPOINTS IN THE 70S AND LIGHT FLOW WILL PRECLUDE ANY FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WEST PALM BEACH 76 92 77 91 / 20 50 20 50 FORT LAUDERDALE 77 91 78 90 / 20 50 20 50 MIAMI 77 92 78 91 / 20 50 20 50 NAPLES 76 91 77 91 / 20 40 20 40 && .MFL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. AM...NONE. GM...NONE. && DG
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH FLORIDA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 453 AM EDT SAT AUG 6 2005 FLZ063-066>075-070900- GLADES-HENDRY-PALM BEACH WESTERN-PALM BEACH EASTERN- WESTERN COLLIER-EASTERN COLLIER-WESTERN BROWARD- BROWARD METROPOLITAN-WESTERN DADE-DADE METROPOLITAN- MAINLAND MONROE- 452 AM EDT SAT AUG 6 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS: SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. THE ACTIVITY WILL BEGIN EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON ALONG THE SEA BREEZES NEAR COASTAL AREAS AND LAKE BREEZES AROUND LAKE OKEECHOBEE. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DRIFT SLOWLY NORTHEAST THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND BRIEF WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL...HOWEVER THE GREATEST DANGER WILL BE FREQUENT TO EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING STRIKES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI WEBSITE AT WWW.MIAMIWEATHER.INFO.
The Miami radar (KAMX), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:01 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
In four separate events, lightning struck the roofs of houses. In two of the strikes, fires were started but both were quickly extinguished.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, August 2005
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: 5470150.