6 flash flood, 2 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 7:36 AM CST, 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 836 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 .UPDATE.. WILL BE UPDATING POPS OVER THE WESTERN ZONES TO LIKELY AS LARGE AREA OF PRECIPITATION CONTINUES TO ADVANCE TOWARD THAT AREA. ALSO LOWER MAX TEMPS OVER MUCH OF THE CWA DUE TO EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER THAT IS UNLIKELY TO ERODE UNTIL MUCH LATER. COMPLETE FORECAST PACKAGE WILL BE OUT SOON. 75 && .AVIATION... WEAK UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ELEVATED SHOWERS MOVING ACROSS THE AREA NOW. WILL INCLUDE MENTION OF 6SM -RA IN KACT TAF BUT JUST VCSH AT METROPLEX SITES WHERE IMPACTS SHOULD BE NEGLIGIBLE. WILL HAVE TO WATCH TRENDS CAREFULLY THIS MORNING TO SEE IF ELEVATED THUNDER DEVELOPS EARLIER THAN FORECAST. ENHANCED LIFT MAY INCREASE COVERAGE TODAY...BUT AT THE SAME TIME MORE MID LEVEL CLOUD COVER LIMITS INSTABILITY. CONFIDENCE IS LOW AND WOULD RATHER CONTINUE WITH THE CURRENT FORECAST FOR AFTERNOON VCTS WITH THE PROB30 BECOMING TEMPO GROUPS WITH THIS PACKAGE...BUT AM A LITTLE WORRIED IT MAY BE INFLUENCED TOO MUCH BY PERSISTENCE. TR/92 && .DISCUSSION... CONVECTIVE DEBRIS CLOUDS FROM SUNDAYS ACTIVITY PERSIST ACROSS MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING...IN THE FORM A BKN/OVC MIXTURE OF AS/CI. HOWEVER...SKIES ARE PARTIALLY CLEAR ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE AREA...WHERE AREAS LIGHT FOG/MIST HAVE FORMED IN RESPONSE TO ENHANCED RADIATIONAL COOLING. SOME LIGHT SHOWERS ARE ALSO NOTED IN KFWS/KGRK REFLECTIVITY DATA...MAINLY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN/WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. WE WILL CARRY A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR MORNING POPS TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS ACTIVITY. MEANWHILE...ANOTHER ROUND OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TODAY...LIKELY BEGINNING AS CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES ARE APPROACHED. SLIGHTLY LOWER HEIGHTS ALOFT ARE PROGGED BY LATEST MODEL GUIDANCE TO PERSIST OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...AND WITH LIGHT WINDS THROUGH THE LOWER/MID TROPOSPHERE AND A VERY MOIST AIRMASS IN PLACE...EXPECT ANOTHER WIDESPREAD COVERAGE OF CONVECTION. THE LATEST NAM/NGM/CANADIAN SOLUTIONS APPEAR MORE IN LINE WITH SREF OUTPUT...AND WILL FOLLOW THIS GUIDANCE MORE CLOSELY AS THE GFS APPEARS TO BE SUFFERING FROM SIGNIFICANT CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK. WILL SKEW HIGHEST POPS TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA...AS CONVECTION SHOULD INITIALLY DEVELOP IN THE VICINITY OF A WEAK LOW-LEVEL CONFLUENCE ZONE DRAPED ACROSS THIS AREA. ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT WILL OCCUR AROUND THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA...BUT EXPECT A HIGHER COVERAGE IN THE SOUTH/WEST. OTHERWISE... THE TREND OF EVENING DISSIPATION AND PARTLY/MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES OVERNIGHT SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK...AS CONDITIONS ON THE SYNOPTIC SCALE REMAIN STAGNANT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS WILL BE USED FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS...AS UPPER RIDGE AXIS OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN U.S. SLOWLY BUILDS TOWARD THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. BEYOND WEDNESDAY...WE WILL MAINTAIN A DRY FORECAST AS INCREASING LARGE SCALE SUBSIDENCE WILL ALLOW FOR SOME DRYING OF THE MID AND UPPER-LEVELS...THUS PROVIDING AN ENVIRONMENT LESS FAVORABLE FOR AFTERNOON AIRMASS CONVECTION. THE GRADUAL WARMING TREND WILL BE MAINTAINED...BUT LACK OF A STRONG ANTICYCLONE ALOFT SHOULD HELP KEEP TEMPERATURES FROM GETTING TOO WARM. NONETHELESS...MANY AREAS WILL LIKELY BE APPROACHING 100 AGAIN BY THE END OF THE WEEK. THE LATEST ECMWF/GFSLR SOLUTIONS ARE NOW ADVERTISING A STRONGER IMPULSE MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS ON SUNDAY/MONDAY...AND HAVE DECIDED TO MENTION SLIGHT CHANCE POPS...ASSOCIATED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS SYSTEM. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 97 75 97 75 / 40 20 30 20 WACO, TX 95 73 94 74 / 50 20 40 20 PARIS, TX 98 70 97 70 / 30 20 30 20 DENTON, TX 97 72 97 72 / 40 20 30 20 MCKINNEY, TX 97 72 97 72 / 40 20 30 20 DALLAS, TX 97 75 97 75 / 40 20 30 20 TERRELL, TX 97 73 97 73 / 40 20 40 20 CORSICANA, TX 96 73 95 74 / 40 20 40 20 TEMPLE, TX 93 73 94 74 / 50 20 40 20 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. && 65/DD
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 500 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-091100- ANDERSON-BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DELTA- DENTON-EASTLAND-ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON- HENDERSON-HILL-HOOD-HOPKINS-HUNT-JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMAR-LAMPASAS- LEON-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILAM-MILLS-MONTAGUE-NAVARRO-PALO PINTO- PARKER-RAINS-ROBERTSON-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-VAN ZANDT- WISE-YOUNG- 500 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS TODAY. WEAK WIND SHEAR AND ONLY MODEST INSTABILITY WILL LIMIT THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. HOWEVER ISOLATED STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH. OTHERWISE... ALL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES AN HOUR WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND PONDING ON SOME ROADWAYS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY BEFORE DRY WEATHER SETTLES IN LATE IN THE WEEK. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE AREA ON SUNDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE FROM ANY OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... VERY LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED BETWEEN NOON AND 7 PM. 92
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
845 AM CDT MON AUG 08 2005
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0600 PM LIGHTNING 2 SW WATAUGA 32.85N 97.28W
08/07/2005 TARRANT TX NWS EMPLOYEE
LIGHTNING SPLIT A TREE IN HALF AND CAUSED THE TREE TO
DESTROY A BENCH IN BUFFALO RIDGE PARK.The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 46 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:11 UTC.
6 flash flood, 2 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a transformer and started a fire in Desdemona.
Water flooded homes and businesses along Walker Street.
Several vehicles stranded due to high water over roads.
Numerous streets flooded with several cars stranded in town.
A tree was blown onto a car in an apartment complex.
Simms Creek and roads around it were closed due to flooding.
Several metal barns, outbuildings, and fences were damaged. A sheriff's patrol car was damaged by a falling limb. Numerous trees were uprooted or broken off at their trunks.
Reported at the intersection of FM 779 and CR 2465.
A car was struck by lightning on Interstate 30. The lightning strike heavily damaged the car's electrical system.
Roads under two feet of water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, 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: 5471211, 5471212, 5471213, 5471214, 5471215, 5471216, 5471217, 5471268, 5471265, 5471267, 5471266.