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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 15, 3:05 AM CST, 6 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 405 AM CDT MON AUG 15 2005 .DISCUSSION... CONVERGENT BOUNDARY OVER THE NORTHERN GULF IN MUCH THE SAME PLACE IT WAS YESTERDAY. THIS SHOULD HELP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SH/TS ONCE AGAIN TODAY...MAINLY FROM THE WEST FIRST AND EVENTUALLY ENVELOPING MUCH OF THE AREA BY AFTERNOON. AN UPPER LOW OVER SW FL THIS MORNING WILL OPEN UP FORMING A LINEAR INVERTED UPPER TROUGH THAT WILL MOVE WESTWARD ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE NEXT FEW DAYS. A MID LEVEL TROUGH OVER GA AND FL PAN WILL FORM FARTHER WEST TODAY THROUGH WED. THE UPPER TROUGH WILL BEGIN TO SET UP A SHEAR ZONE WHEN IT MOVES UP AGAINST THE UPPER RIDGE TO OUR WEST. ALL THESE FEATURES SHOULD HELP KEEP POP NUMBERS ABNORMALLLY HIGH FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. A TRANSITION PERIOD OCCURS THU AS THE RAIN TAP BEGINS TO SHUT DOWN. A VERY DEEP LAYER STACKED RIDGE JUST BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO THE EASTERN BAHAMAS(SEEN VERY WELL ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY) WILL MAKE ITS APPEARANCE OVER THE AREA BY FRIDAY EFFECTIVELY CAUSING POP NUMBERS TO DECLINE QUITE A BIT. WILL KEEP ISOLATED IN FOR NOW SINCE IT IS STILL SEVERAL DAYS OUT. THINGS ARE SURE TO HEAT UP QUITE A BIT AS WELL ALONG WITH THE HEAT INDEX NUMBERS SINCE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL CONTINUE ON THE HIGH SIDE. SOIL MOISTURE WILL ALSO BE HIGH ADDING TO THE HEAT INDEX NUMBERS AS THE WEEKEND FALLS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MCB 95 74 93 73 / 50 20 40 30 BTR 95 75 93 75 / 50 20 40 30 MSY 94 77 92 78 / 50 30 40 30 GPT 92 75 91 75 / 40 30 40 30 && .LIX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. GM...NONE. MS...NONE. GM...NONE. && 17
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 600 AM CDT MON AUG 15 2005 LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-151600- AMITE-ASCENSION-ASSUMPTION-EAST BATON ROUGE-EAST FELICIANA-HANCOCK- HARRISON-IBERVILLE-JACKSON-LIVINGSTON-LOWER JEFFERSON- LOWER LAFOURCHE-LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE- ORLEANS-PEARL RIVER-PIKE-POINTE COUPEE-ST CHARLES-ST HELENA-ST JAMES- ST JOHN THE BAPTIST-ST TAMMANY-TANGIPAHOA-UPPER JEFFERSON- UPPER LAFOURCHE-UPPER PLAQUEMINES-UPPER ST BERNARD-UPPER TERREBONNE- WALTHALL-WASHINGTON-WEST BATON ROUGE-WEST FELICIANA-WILKINSON- 600 AM CDT MON AUG 15 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST...SOUTH CENTRAL AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THROUGH THIS EVENING. AN ISOLATED STRONG STORM IS POSSIBLE BUT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN WEAK...BUT A FEW LOCALLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...ONLY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL LIKELY BE IN THE 105 TO 110 DEGREE RANGE TOWARD THE END OF THIS WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN AND THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE BECOMES LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME. 17
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck and killed a 26 year old man while he was working outside.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Hancock | 2005-08-15 | 26 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, 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: 5475547.