1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 3, 1:50 PM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 250 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005 .DISCUSSION... ALREADY SEEING STRONG STORMS DEVELOPING OVER OUR SOUTHWEST ZONES IN AREA OF WEAK LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND SUBTLE SHORTWAVE MOVING THROUGH NORTHWEST FLOW JUST EAST OF BUILDING RIDGE OVER NORTHERN OK. MODIFICATION TO 12Z KSGF SOUNDING WITH CURRENT TEMPERATURE/DEWPOINT GIVES CAPE AROUND 2500 J/KG AND LI AROUND -9...SO STORMS HAVE PLENTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL INSTABILITY. WEAK FLOW ALOFT HAS LED TO SLOW MOVEMENT OF STORMS AND INCREASED FLOODING POTENTIAL. HAVE INCLUDED FLOOD AND MARGINAL SEVERE WIND/HAIL THREATS IN LATEST HWO. INITIATING SHORTWAVE SHOULD EXIT THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS DAYTIME HEATING DROPS OFF...SO HAVE CARRIED EARLY EVENING STORMS...OTHERWISE WILL KEEP A DRY FORECAST GOING THROUGH TONIGHT. UPPER RIDGE WILL BUILD EASTWARD ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST ON SUNDAY FURTHER LIMITING OUR CHANCES FOR PRECIP. NAM FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW MID LEVEL MOISTURE DECREASING EVEN THOUGH WE SHOULD BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE ONCE AGAIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON. NAM 500 MB HEIGHT PROGS OFF THE 12Z NAM RUN SHOWED A WEAK WAVE OVERTOPPING UPPER RIDGE AXIS...BUT 18Z RUN HAS WASHED OUT THIS FEATURE. CANNOT COMPLETELY RULE OUT A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO DURING THE AFTERNOON...BUT THINK MOST AREAS WILL REMAIN DRY...SO WILL LEAVE FORECAST DRY FOR TOMORROW. UPPER RIDGE WILL FLATTEN OUT BY MIDWEEK AS UPPER TROUGH CURRENTLY OFF THE PACIFIC COAST WORKS ITS WAY EASTWARD INTO THE NORTH CENTRAL U.S.. LATEST NAM AND GFS KEEP MIDWEEK COLD FRONT FURTHER NORTH IN NORTHERN MO/SOUTHERN IOWA THROUGH THURSDAY BEFORE GFS AND ECMWF PUSH IT BACK TO THE NORTH ON FRIDAY. HAVE REMOVED SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FROM GRIDS FOR WED/THURS. WITH PRESSURE GRADIENT STILL TIGHTENING UP ON FRIDAY...INCLUDED SOME WIND GUSTS AROUND 20 MPH. OTHERWISE STILL LOOKS WARM AND DRY THROUGH EXTENDED PORTION OF THE FORECAST. TERRY && .AVIATION... FOR THE 18Z TAFS...VFR CONDITIONS WILL GENERALLY BE THE RULE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. SOME VICINITY THUNDER WILL BE NEEDED FOR TAF SITES THROUGH THE AFTERNOON WITH POTENTIAL UPDATES TO TEMPO THUNDER DEPENDING ON RADAR TRENDS. AFTER AROUND 02Z...WILL CARRY PROMINENT VFR CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES. IZZI/TERRY && SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .MO...NONE. .KS...NONE. WFO SGF
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
100 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-041100-
BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON-
ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS-
LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON-
LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE-
TANEY-OZARK-OREGON-
100 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2005
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI
OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS.
.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED:
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...THE MOST INTENSE STORMS COULD
PRODUCE:
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...
HEAVY RAIN...
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES...
AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH.
AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING:
MAINLY SOUTHWEST OF AN OSCEOLA TO WEST PLAINS LINE UNTIL 8 PM.
DISCUSSION:
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN AND
WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND
LINGER INTO THE EARLY EVENING. SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY WILL BE
PRESENT FOR AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR
TWO...WITH VERY ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS THE MAIN THREAT.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.
&&
THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH
OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT
HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE)
TERRY/IZZIPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
513 PM CDT SAT SEP 03 2005
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0510 PM HEAVY RAIN ALDRICH 37.55N 93.57W
09/03/2005 1.35 INCH POLK MO CO-OP OBSERVER
1.35 OF RAIN FELL IN 35 MINUTES. PEA SIZE HAIL ALSO
REPORTED.
0513 PM FLASH FLOOD WENTWORTH 36.98N 94.08W
09/03/2005 NEWTON MO PUBLIC
FLOODING ON GOING OVER LOW LYING AREAS. MEASURED 4.5 OF
RAIN TODAY IN WENTWORTH.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
536 PM CDT SAT SEP 03 2005
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0530 PM TSTM WND DMG PITTSBURG 37.42N 94.70W
09/03/2005 CRAWFORD KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
TWO POWER LINES DOWN.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
539 PM CDT SAT SEP 03 2005
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0537 PM HAIL MORRISVILLE 37.48N 93.43W
09/03/2005 0.88 INCH POLK MO BROADCAST MEDIA
PEA TO NICKLE SIZE HAIL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
544 PM CDT SAT SEP 03 2005
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0540 PM HAIL 2 NE BRIGHTON 37.47N 93.32W
09/03/2005 1.75 INCH POLK MO LAW ENFORCEMENTPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
553 PM CDT SAT SEP 03 2005
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0545 PM HAIL 2 NE BRIGHTON 37.47N 93.32W
09/03/2005 1.50 INCH POLK MO FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
FIRE DEPT REPORTED HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50
MPH WINDS.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
605 PM CDT SAT SEP 03 2005
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0604 PM HAIL PLEASANT HOPE 37.47N 93.28W
09/03/2005 0.88 INCH POLK MO CO-OP OBSERVERThe Springfield radar (KSGF), 29 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:07 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Downburst winds destroyed two barns in rural southeast Polk County. The barns were located on County Road 530, near the intersection with Highway KK.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5475236.