2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 15, 2:45 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 345 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 2005 .DISCUSSION... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ONCE AGAIN DEVELOPED ACROSS THE MID-SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON. THIS CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED ALONG A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH WHICH BISECTS THE REGION AND IN RESPONSE TO AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AXIS ALONG WITH DAYTIME HEATING. OTHER CONVECTION FURTHER SOUTH HAS ALSO INITIATED ALONG OLD OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES LEFT AROUND FROM CONVECTION THAT OCCURRED EARLIER THIS MORNING. EXPECT CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING WITH A REDUCTION IN THE OVERALL COVERAGE LATER TONIGHT WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN (HIGH PWATS)...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. ALTHOUGH A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG...THINK THAT MOST WILL STAY BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...ALTHOUGH CANNOT COMPLETELY RULE OUT AN ISOLATED PULSE SEVERE STORM IN AREAS THAT RECEIVED GOOD HEATING AND RESULTANT POCKETS OF INCREASED INSTABILITY. TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON HAVE BEEN HELD BACK ACROSS MOST AREAS DUE TO THE CLOUD COVER AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THIS WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY...WITH THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS REMAINING ORIENTED OVER THE AREA. EXPECT ANOTHER DAY SIMILAR TO TODAY...WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG OLD MESOSCALE SURFACE BOUNDARIES...ESPECIALLY DURING THE MAXIMUM HEATING OF THE DAY. THINK THAT TEMPERATURES WILL REACH INTO THE UPPER 80S AGAIN ON SATURDAY...WITH WIDE RANGES IN AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES BASED UPON WHERE ONGOING CONVECTION EXISTS. IN ADDITION...WITH A VERY MOIST AIRMASS IN PLACE AND PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES NEARING 2 INCHES...CANNOT RULE OUT A HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL WITH ANY SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS. THE BERMUDA HIGH OFF OF THE SOUTHEAST U.S. COAST TODAY WILL BUILD WESTWARD FOR SUNDAY AND INTO THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR DRIER MID LEVEL AIR TO MOVE OVER THE AREA AND WITH UPPER LEVEL HEIGHT RISES SHOULD LEAD TO MORE SUBSIDENCE OVER THE REGION. ALTHOUGH DIURNAL CONVECTION CANNOT BE RULED OUT FOR THE END OF THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK...THE OVERALL CHANCES AND COVERAGE WILL BE DIMINISHED. AN UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGH NOW MOVING INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST WILL MOVE EAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND AMPLIFY THROUGH THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL HELP TO SEND A COLD FRONT TOWARDS THE AREA ON MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. THE UPPER TROUGH WILL BEGIN TO DE-AMPLIFY BY MID-WEEK CAUSING THE FRONT TO STALL ALONG OUR NORTHERN PERIPHERY ON TUESDAY AND WASH OUT BY WEDNESDAY. HAVE RAISED POPS A BIT ON TUESDAY TO ACCOUNT FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE FRONT. UPPER LEVEL RIDGING WILL AGAIN BUILD OVER THE AREA FOR THE END OF NEXT WEEK WITH DRY WEATHER AND INCREASING SUMMER HEAT EXPECTED. && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES AR...NONE. MO...NONE. MS...NONE. TN...NONE. JLH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 352 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 2005 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-161000- ALCORN-BENTON-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-COAHOMA- CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DECATUR-DESOTO-DUNKLIN-DYER- FAYETTE-GIBSON-GREENE-HARDEMAN-HARDIN-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-HENRY- ITAWAMBA-LAFAYETTE-LAKE-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEE(AR)-LEE(MS)-MADISON- MARSHALL-MCNAIRY-MISSISSIPPI-MONROE-OBION-PANOLA-PEMISCOT-PHILLIPS- POINSETT-PONTOTOC-PRENTISS-QUITMAN-RANDOLPH-SHELBY-ST. FRANCIS- TALLAHATCHIE-TATE-TIPPAH-TIPTON-TISHOMINGO-TUNICA-UNION-WEAKLEY- YALOBUSHA- 352 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF THE MID-SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A VERY MOIST AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE OVER THE AREA AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS. SOME FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH STATIONARY OR SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE POSSIBLE OVER PORTIONS OF THE AREA ON SATURDAY WITH A HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL CONTINUING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME...ALTHOUGH SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT AREAS WHERE FLASH FLOODING OCCURS OR WHERE ONE INCH OR GREATER HOURLY RAINFALL TOTALS ARE RECORDED. JLH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
524 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0517 PM FLASH FLOOD MEMPHIS 34.93N 90.14W
07/15/2005 DESOTO MS PUBLIC
PUBLIC REPORT OF CAR BEING MOVED BY RUNOFF.
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</html>The Memphis radar (KNQA), 44 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:10 UTC.
2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
More than 200 homes were flooded in the Southaven area with water reaching up to 4 feet in some of the houses. Numerous roads were flooded and several people had to rescued from their cars.
A roof collapsed at a commercial building due to 2.5 inches of rain.
Several roads were flooded.
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, July 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: 5465440, 5465439, 5465441.