1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 25, 3:55 AM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 455 AM CDT SAT JUN 25 2005 .DISCUSSION... FNTL BNDRY ACRS NEB AND IA HAS PRODUCED LOCALLY HVY RAIN OVERNIGHT ACRS NW IA. THIS FNT WL BEGIN A GRADUAL PUSH N THROUGH TONIGHT. ANOTHER S/W EVIDENT ON SAT AND RADAR OVRN SWRN NEB IS LIFTING SLOWLY NEWD. GFS SEEMS TO HAVE A BETTER HANDLE ON THIS AND PROGS IT TO MOVE INTO SW MN TONIGHT. WUD EXPECT TRW OVR NW TO GRADUALLY WEAKEN THIS MORN...BUT WL REDEVELOP THIS AFTN AS S/W INTERACTS WITH FNT. WUD EXPECT TRW TO REDEVELOP S OF I90 AND SPREAD NEWD THIS EVE AND OVERNIGHT. H85 LLJ WL ALSO INCREASE DURING THE NIGHT AS H85 FNT LIFTS NWD. PLENTY OF LLM AVAIL TO PSBLY PRODUCE MORE HEAVY RAIN. THIS SHUD BE A LTL FURTHER N THAN TONIGHT AND BEST FOCUS WL BE ACRS SW MN. WL NEED TO WATCH DEVELOPMENT A LATER SHIFT MAY NEED TO DECIDE ABOUT FLOOD WATCH. STILL TOO MUCH UNCERTAINTY ON EXACT LOCATION. COOLER TEMPS OVR ALL OF CWA TODAY WITH ELY LOW LEVEL FLOW...BUT STILL SHUD OVR BE A FEW DEG BLO NORM. WITH FNT N OF CWA ON SUN...SHUD SEE HOT AND HUMID CONDS RETURN AND LAST INTO MON. MODELS ALL SHOW FNT PUSHING SE ACRS CWA SUN NITE INTO MON AND AGAIN STALLING OVR IA AND NEB BY MON EVE. SO WL ADD CHC OF TRW TO CWA MAINLY MON INTO TUES WITH FNT TO THE S AND SW FLOW ALOFT BRINGING WEAK S/WS NE ACRS CWA INTERACTING WITH FNT. THREAT OF SVR WX NOT ALL THE GREAT THIS AFTN OR OVERNIGHT...BUT A FEW HAILERS CUD DEVELOP...WITH THE MAIN THREAT HVY RAIN. TEMPS WL RETURN BACK TO NORM WED INTO NEXT WEEKEND. && .FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. NE...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 331 AM CDT SAT JUN 25 2005 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-261200- AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA- CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE- DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON- IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN- LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN- OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN- SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON- 331 AM CDT SAT JUN 25 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED SHOWERS THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST IOWA WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN THIS MORNING. HOWEVER...MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90 LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND SPREAD NORTH DURING THE NIGHT. A FEW STORMS WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...HOWEVER...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. FLOODING... THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WILL PERSIST OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST IOWA THROUGH MID MORNING...AND WILL CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90 LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND SPREAD NORTH DURING THE NIGHT. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT COULD CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING OVER NORTHWEST IOWA INTO SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION ON MONDAY AND WILL BRING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
252 AM CDT SAT JUN 25 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0248 AM FLASH FLOOD LE MARS 42.79N 96.17W
06/25/2005 PLYMOUTH IA TRAINED SPOTTER
LOTS OF STREET FLOODING IN LEMARS...ALSO FIELDS AROUND
LEMARS ARE BEGINNING TO FLOOD.
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GHThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Runoff from heavy rain caused the Maple River to flow over its banks for a few hours, flooding farmland and gravel pits.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Iowa in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, June 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: 5458443.