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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 30, 6:05 AM CST, 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 705 AM CDT MON MAY 30 2005 .DISCUSSION UPDATED... WILL UPDATE ZONES TO DELETE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WHICH EXPIRED AT 700 AM THIS MORNING. .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... AVN/GFS AND ETA MODELS SIMILAR FOR FIRST 18 HOURS. THEREAFTER ETA SHOWS 500MB SHORT WAVE DEEPENING AND SLOWING DOWN OVER SOUTHWEST LA WHILE GFS TRACKS THE TROUGH EASTWARD. THE ETA HANGS THE SYSTEM UP OVER LA WITH A NEGATIVE TILT AXIS TUEDSAY NIGHT AND TRACKS THE TROUGH NORTHEAST INTO NORTHERN MS WEDNESDAY. WITH NEXT LOW MOVING INTO NORTHERN ROCKIES MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY AM EXPECT THIS TO HELP KICK THE TROUGH OVER LA/MS EASTWARD SIMILAR TO GFS SOLUTION...BUT WILL ADD POPS IN FOR WEDNESDAY TO COVER THE EVENTUALITY OF A SLOWER MOVEMENT. REMAINDER OF FORECAST LEFT AS IS. AREAS IN SOUTHEAST LA AND SOUTHERN MS HAVE RECEIVED OVER 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THE LAST 18 HOURS WITH A FEW SPOTS RECORDING OVER 5 INCHES. SATELLITE AND RADAR SHOW ANOTHER IMPULSE BEING EJECTED EASTWARD. WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER LEVELS NEAR 2 INCHES OVER THE CWA AND POTENTIAL FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...WILL ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE CWA. UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS STILL LOOK GOOD FOR ISOLATED SEVERE CONVECTION TODAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MCB 82 69 83 66 / 90 80 60 20 BTR 84 71 86 68 / 100 70 60 20 MSY 85 74 85 73 / 90 80 70 20 GPT 82 70 82 70 / 90 80 70 20 && .LIX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...FLASH FLOOW WATCH...ALL SE LA PARISHES TODAY AND TONIGHT. MS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH...SOUTHWEST AND EXTREME SOUTH MS COUNTIES. SE LA AND MS COASTAL WATERS...NONE. &&
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 141 AM CDT MON MAY 30 2005 LAZ034>036-046>048-MSZ068-300815- EAST BATON ROUGE-EAST FELICIANA-IBERVILLE-POINTE COUPEE- WEST BATON ROUGE-WEST FELICIANA-WILKINSON- 141 AM CDT MON MAY 30 2005 ...THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS EXTENDING FROM BATON ROUGE AND PLAQUEMINE WEST TO THE ATCHAFALAYA RIVER AND NORTH TO THE HOMOCHITTO NATIONAL FOREST IN WILKINSON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI THROUGH 330 AM CDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. LOCALIZED FLOODING OF SOME ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS MAY OCCUR WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. 11
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
228 AM CDT MON MAY 30 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0215 AM TSTM WND DMG LETTSWORTH 30.93N 91.70W
05/30/2005 POINTE COUPEE LA EMERGENCY MNGR
A FEW TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN ON LOUSIANA HIGHWAY 1.
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REPORTED BY SHERRIFS OFFICE.
PGRIGSBYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
338 AM CDT MON MAY 30 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0311 AM TSTM WND DMG 1 S JACKSON 30.82N 91.21W
05/30/2005 EAST FELICIANA LA EMERGENCY MNGR
LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS A FEW TREES DOWN ON LOUISIANA
HIGHWAY 68 NEAR THE STATE PRISON.
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PGRIGSBYSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 540 AM MON MAY 30 2005 LAZ034>037-046>050-0956-057-301200- POINTE COUPEE-WEST FELICIANA-EAST FELICIANA-ST HELENA-WEST BATON ROUGE-EAST BATON ROUGE-LIVINGSTON-IBERVILLE-ASCENSION-ASSUMPTION- ST JAMES- 540 AM CDT MON MAY 30 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 355 IS CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... POINTE COUPEE...WEST FELICIANA...EAST FELICIANA...ST HELENA... WEST BATON ROUGE...EAST BATON ROUGE...LIVINGSTON...IBERVILLE... ASCENSION...ASSUMPTION...ST JAMES. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE AREA.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a tree in Lake Vista sending fragments of wood into the air and into several area homes causing minor damage to some residences.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, May 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: 5451532.