Flash Flood, Garza
- When
- August 4, 11:45 PM CST to August 5, 12:15 AM CST
- Where
- Garza County, Post
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.183, -101.383
Numerous roads and Farm to Market roads flooded in the Post area out to 6 miles west of Post.
Flash Flooding in Texas, August 4 to 5, 2005
2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 4, 9:33 PM CST, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 9:33 PM CST, 2 hours 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1033 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2005 .UPDATE... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LOOK AS IF THEY WILL TRAIN OVER THE SAME AREAS ALONG THE OUTFLOW FROM THE SOUTH AND THE PREFRONTAL TROUGH THAT MOVED TO THE SOUTHERN CWA. ADDITIONAL CONVERGENCE WILL BE ADDED WHEN THE COLD FRONT ARRIVES. FOR THIS REASON AND THE 150% OF NORMAL PWS HAVE DECIDED TO GO WITH A FLOOD WATCH FOR A LARGE PORTION OF THE CWA. && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 09Z TXZ024>027-029>044. && 18/08
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 8:00 AM CST, 15 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 900 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2005 TXZ021>044-051100- BAILEY-BRISCOE-CASTRO-CHILDRESS-COCHRAN-COTTLE-CROSBY-DICKENS-FLOYD- GARZA-HALE-HALL-HOCKLEY-KENT-KING-LAMB-LUBBOCK-LYNN-MOTLEY-PARMER- STONEWALL-SWISHER-TERRY-YOAKUM- 900 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS THE AREA. WHILE THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 7:23 PM CST, 4 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 823 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2005 TXZ037-050215- DICKENS- 823 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER DICKENS COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES TO THE SOUTHEAST OF DICKENS COULD PRODUCE A WIND GUST AROUND 55 MPH. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT AROUND 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE VERY CLOSE TO THE COMMUNITY OF SPUR. IN ADDITION TO THE STRONG WIND GUST... HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ACCUMULATE 1/2 TO 1 INCH POTENTIALLY CAUSING PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:46 UTC.
Event by event
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Lynn
- When
- August 5, 12:00 AM CST to 12:15 AM CST
- Where
- Lynn County, Tahoka
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.183, -101.783
Several flooded roadways in the Tahoka area out to 10 miles west of Tahoka.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat and Damaging Winds in Missouri, August 4, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, August 4 to 6, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 4, 2005
- Flash Flooding in California, August 4, 2005
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, August 4, 2005
- Damaging Wind in California, August 4, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 4, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 4, 2005
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 4, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 4, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 4, 2005
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, August 4, 2005
More
Every storm in Texas in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 2005
Sources
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: 5465268, 5465269.