1 flood, 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 Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 31, 2:00 PM CST, 10 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 300 PM CDT SUN JUL 31 2005 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT MAIN FOCUS FOR THE SHORT TERM WILL BE ON PRECIPITATION CHANCES MONDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. CURRENTLY HAVE A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY STRETCHING FROM NORTHEAST MINNESOTA BACK THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. A FEW LOW CLOUDS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS BOUNDARY FROM NEAR KETH UP INTO THE ARROWHEAD OF MINNESOTA. EXPECT THIS BOUNDARY TO CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTH TONIGHT...WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN FOR MONDAY. WITH MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS...EXPECT OVERNIGHT TEMPS TO BE SIMILAR TO LAST NIGHT WITH LOWS IN THE LOW TO MID 60S ACROSS THE CWA. ANOTHER WEAK WAVE TO PUSH EAST OUT OF THE ROCKIES LATER MONDAY INTO MONDAY NIGHT. THIS COULD FIRE SOME CONVECTION OFF ACROSS THE WESTERN PORTION OF SOUTH DAKOTA...WITH CONVECTION PUSHING INTO TO CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA BY LATE EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. BETTER LIFT IS SITUATED TO THE SOUTH OVER CENTRAL NEBRASKA...SO LEFT JUST THE SLIGHT CHANCE MENTION. NEXT SYSTEM OF INTEREST SLIDES ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY...WITH A COLD FRONT DROPPING SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION LATE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. MODELS SHOWING A SLIGHTLY FASTER SOLUTION...SO HAVE MADE SOME CHANGES ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE SYSTEM. OTHERWISE KEPT MENTION OF PRECIP STARTING LATE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY AS FRONT LOOKS TO MAKE ITS WAY INTO NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA BY MIDDAY WEDNESDAY. BOUNDARY INTO EAST CENTRAL/SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA BY EARLY WEDNESDAY EVENING. LOOKING LIKE A PRETTY GOOD CHANCE FOR RAIN WITH THIS SYSTEM...WITH DECENT UVM SHOWING UP IN THE OMEGA FIELD ALONG WITH STRONG UPPER DIVERGENCE DUE TO JET STREAK OVERHEAD ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE EASTERN CWA. THEREFORE UPPED POPS TO 50 PERCENT WEDNESDAY ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA CONTOURED BACK TO 30 PERCENT FOR THE WEST RIVER COUNTIES. FRONT IS PROGGED TO PUSH THROUGH FASTER...SO WENT WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE ACROSS THE NORTH FOR WED EVE...AND THEN REMOVING POPS ACROSS MOST OF THE CWA FOR LATE WED NIGHT. PRETTY GOOD PUSH OF COOL AIR BEHIND THE FRONT...WITH H85 TEMPS DROPPING TO AROUND +14C...SO DROPPED LOW TEMPS SOME WED NIGHT AS SKIES CLEAR WITH THE COOLER HIGH PRESSURE SETTLING IN. WINDS SHOULD PICK UP PRETTY GOOD BEHIND THE FRONT AS WELL WEDNESDAY WITH NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25-30MPH EXPECTED. .LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY MODELS WERE IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH THE MEDIUM RANGE. OVERALL THE PATTERN IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN PROGRESSIVE AS MID LEVEL TROF MOVES INTO THE GREAT LAKES AND RIDGE REBUILDS OVER THE WESTERN CONUS. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE DOMINATES FIRST PART OF THE EXTENDED...THEN ANOTHER FRONT MOVES THROUGH LATE NEXT WEEKEND. HARD TO SAY AT THIS POINT HOW ACTIVE THAT FRONT MIGHT PROVE. THUS FORECAST WILL REMAIN DRY THROUGH ENTIRE TIME PERIOD. TEMPERATURES LOOK TO BE RIGHT AROUND SEASONAL NORMS. && .ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. && ALBRECHT/TDK
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 523 AM CDT SUN JUL 31 2005 MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-011022- BIG STONE-BROWN-BUFFALO-CAMPBELL-CLARK-CODINGTON-CORSON-DAY-DEUEL- DEWEY-EDMUNDS-FAULK-GRANT-HAMLIN-HAND-HUGHES-HYDE-JONES-LYMAN- MARSHALL-MCPHERSON-POTTER-ROBERTS-SPINK-STANLEY-SULLY-TRAVERSE- WALWORTH- 523 AM CDT SUN JUL 31 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...AS WELL AS BIG STONE AND TRAVERSE COUNTIES IN MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY NIGHT ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. KNUTSVIG
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The James River at Stratford slowly fell through August and then to below flood stage by the end of the month. Mainly agricultural land and a few roads were flooded.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, 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: 5472813.