1 lightning, 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 22, 1:25 AM CST, 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
225 AM CDT MON AUG 22 2005
.DISCUSSION...
A HEAT ADVISORY WILL CONTINUE FOR THE SOUTHERN TWO THIRDS OF THE
MIDSOUTH TODAY INTO THIS EVENING. TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 90S
TO NEAR 100 DEGREES ALONG WITH HIGH DEWPOINTS WILL MAKE THE
SWELTER FACTOR UP NEAR 111 DEGREES AT SOME LOCATIONS THIS
AFTERNOON.
ENOUGH HEATING AND MOISTURE WILL EXIST FOR DEVELOPMENT OF
AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
COVERAGE WILL BE AROUND 30 PERCENT.
&&
.MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
AR...HEAT ADVISORY CONTINUES THROUGH 7PM FOR EAST-CENTRAL
ARKANSAS.
MO...NONE.
MS...HEAT ADVISORY CONTINUES THROUGH 7PM FOR ALL OF NORTH
MISSISSIPPI.
TN...HEAT ADVISORY CONTINUES THROUGH 7PM FOR THE SHELBY...
FAYETTE...HARDEMAN...MCNAIRY...AND HARDIN COUNTIES.HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 711 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 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>092-221100- 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- 711 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE... A HEAT ADVISORY WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE MID-SOUTH WITH HEAT INDICES REACHING 105 TO 110 DEGREES. THE ELDERLY AND THOSE WITH HEALTH PROBLEMS SHOULD REMAIN IN AN AIR CONDITIONED AREAS. IF OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ARE PLANNED...TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE HEAT ADVISORY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 7PM MONDAY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE MID-SOUTH...INCLUDING AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. HEAT INDICES ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA WILL ONCE AGAIN RANGE BETWEEN 105 TO 110 DEGREES ON MONDAY AFTERNOON. PLEASE FOLLOW HEAT RELATED SAFETY TIPS TO PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST THE DANGERS OF HEAT. ADDITIONAL SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON MONDAY. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL ONCE AGAIN BECOME UNSTABLE AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD AGAIN BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION FOR WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 81 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:58 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A nursing home was damaged by a fire started by lightning.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, 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: 5472355.