2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heat, 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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 4, 2:45 AM CST, 9 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 345 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2005 .DISCUSSION... THE COLD FRONT IS BEGINNING TO PUSH INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSOURI EARLY THIS MORNING. AREA OF ISENTROPIC LIFT JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT HAS CAUSED EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER ALONG WITH ISOLATED/SCATTERED SPRINKLES ACROSS MAINLY NORTHERN MISSOURI. THE AMOUNT OF CLOUD COVER AND ITS AFFECT ON TEMPS THIS AFTERNOON IS THE BIGGEST QUESTION TODAY. THIS CLOUD COVER IS MORE EXTENSIVE THAN PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED AND SHOULD PERSIST ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI...ALONG AND BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...KEEPING AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES ON THE COOL SIDE. HAVE GONE A FEW DEGREES BELOW GUIDANCE...BUT STILL IN THE 80S. HOWEVER TEMPS MAY BE EVEN COOLER DEPENDING ON SCATTERED PRECIP AND NEXT SHIFT MAY NEED TO UPDATE. CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD BE CONSIDERABLY WARMER THAN NORTHERN MISSOURI TODAY...WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT NOT EXPECTED UNTIL WELL INTO THE AFTERNOON. CLOUD COVER ALSO WILL NOT LIKELY BE AS EXTENSIVE AS NORTHERN MISSOURI THROUGH MUCH OF THE DAY...SO HAVE GONE A LITTLE ABOVE GUIDANCE IN THAT AREA. LIKEWISE THE NEXT SHIFT WILL NEED TO WATCH THIS. PRECIP WILL PROBABLY BE MORE SCATTERED ALONG AND BEHIND THE FRONT ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI THROUGH MOST OF THE DAY. EXPECT THERE TO BE AN INCREASE IN COVERAGE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS DAYTIME HEATING HELPS CREATE MORE INSTABILITY ACROSS THE AREA. HAVE BUMPED POPS UP JUST A LITTLE MORE ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI. GFS AND NAM SOLUTIONS DIFFER FOR THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. GFS SHOWS UPPER LEVEL ENERGY LINGERING AND WEAK SHORTWAVES MOVING ACROSS THE REGION...CONTINUING THE CHANCE FOR SHOWERS. HOWEVER THE NAM IS MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE IN BRINGING DRY AIR INTO THE REGION...PUSHING THE PRECIP SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA. FOR NOW HAVE SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE AND HELD ON TO LOW PRECIP CHANCES THROUGH FRIDAY FOR ONLY CENTRAL MISSOURI. NRR && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... 325 PM WED... APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL BE THE PRIMARY DRIVER ON SENSIBLE WEATHER THROUGH FRIDAY. LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE EXPECTED TO WEAKEN WITH TIME AS FRONT MOVES THROUGH CWA AS BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS VEER. SHORTWAVE PROGGED TO TRACK EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND UPPER MS VALLEY ON THURSDAY WITH TAIL END OF TROUGH NUDGING FRONT SOUTHWARD. THUS...HAVE SLOWED DOWN ARRIVAL OF COLD FRONT BY A FEW HOURS...WITH NAM MODEL OF CHOICE THROUGH THURSDAY. EXPECT COLD FRONT TO ENTER NORTHWEST CORNER MO DURING PRE-DAWN HOURS...REACHING THE MO RIVER BY MID AFTERNOON. DUE TO MINIMAL FRONTAL CONVERGENCE AND LACKING UPPER SUPPORT BELIEVE CONVECTION WILL BE POST FRONTAL VARIETY WITH SCATTERED COVERAGE EXPECTED. HAVE BUMPED UP POPS FOR THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS AIRMASS WILL BE MODERATELY UNSTABLE...PLUS WITH VEERING WIND FIELDS ACTIVITY LIKELY TO TRACK MORE EAST THAN SOUTH SO HOLES IN COVERAGE MAY FILL IN WITH TIME. ALSO HAVE SOME CONCERN FOR A FEW STORMS TO PULSE UP AND BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE LEVELS JUST NORTH OF BOUNDARY DURING MAX HEATING. IN THE SHORT TERM HAVE RAISED LOWS TONIGHT TO BE MORE IN LINE WITH PERSISTENCE. EVEN THEN I MAY BE TOO CONSERVATIVE AS 925MB THERMAL RIDGE WILL LIE ACROSS NORTHERN MO TONIGHT. CLOUD COVER TONIGHT WILL BE SPARSE COMPARED TO THE AC OF LAST 2 NIGHTS SO THAT SHOULD ALLOW FOR A BIT MORE NOCTURNAL COOLING. MODELS IN SIMILAR AGREEMENT TO HOLD ONTO CHANCE POPS SOUTH OF THE MO RIVER THROUGH MOST OF THURSDAY NIGHT AS TAIL END OF SHORTWAVE LAGS AND PROVIDES JUST ENOUGH LIFT. CANADIAN AND GFS MODELS EVEN GO SO FAR AS TO MAINTAIN RAIN CHANCES ACROSS SOUTHERN HALF OF CWA ALL DAY FRIDAY. THIS BASED UPON A SHORTWAVE TRACKING OUT OF THE CENTRAL ROCKIES. CONFIDENCE LOW IN THIS OCCURRING BUT WORTH NOTING AS FUTURE SHIFTS CAN KEEP AN EYE ON THIS AREA FOR ANY SIGNS OF A SHORTWAVE. HAVE INTRODUCED LOW CHANCE POPS FOR FRIDAY MORNING MAINLY DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE COLD FRONT. WEAK WESTERLY FLOW AND LIKELIHOOD OF MID LEVEL MOISTURE CIRCULATING OVER TOP OF FLATTENED UPPER HIGH SUGGESTS THERE WILL BE CONSIDERABLE CLOUD COVER ACROSS ALL BUT FAR NORTHERN MO ON FRIDAY. THIS WILL HELP KEEP A LID ON TEMPERATURES FOR FRIDAY RESULTING IN READINGS 5-7 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. REST OF FORECAST LOOKS DRY AS UPPER HIGH STARTS TO BUILD BACK OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES BY THE END OF THE WEEKEND. A GRADUAL WARMUP BEGINS ON SATURDAY WITH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES BACK IN THE FORECAST BY SUNDAY. MJ && .EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. MO...NONE. WFO EAX
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 100 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2005 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-051100- ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER- PUTNAM-SCHUYLER-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR- BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY- RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON-RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD- CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-COOPER-BATES-HENRY- 100 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...A COLD FRONT STRETCHED FROM SEDALIA SOUTHWEST TO SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. THE FRONT MAY TRIGGER A FEW THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING FROM LA CYNGE KANSAS EAST TO SEDALIA. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. DB
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 23 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:52 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A 64 year old female from Kansas City in Jackson county died from heat related causes on August 4th.
Power lines downed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat, Jackson | 2005-08-04 | 64 | Female | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, 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: 5471763, 5471761, 5471762.