6 flash flood, 2 flood, 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 9, 5:30 AM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 630 AM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 .AVIATION... BRUNT OF THE CONVECTION WILL BE LOCATED SW OF THE METROPLEX TODAY NEAR THE CORE OF THE WEAK UPPER LEVEL LOW. WILL CARRY PREVAILING THUNDER AND RAIN FOR KACT THROUGH THE MORNING WITH TEMPO IFR. VCSH SHOULD COVER THE METROPLEX SITES THIS MORNING UNTIL HEATING RESULTS IN DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED AFTERNOON CONVECTION. BEST APPROACH AT THIS TIME IS TO UTILIZE VCTS AND NEXT SHIFT SHOULD HAVE A BETTER IDEA ON BETTER TIMING. AFTER 23Z HAVE THUNDER ENDING IN ALL TAFS WITH NO CONCERNS THROUGH THE NIGHT. TR/92 && .DISCUSSION... NOCTURNAL CONVECTION...ASSOCIATED WITH WEAK/WARM-CORE UPPER LOW OVER CENTRAL TEXAS...CONTINUES TO AFFECT MAINLY THE SOUTHWESTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING. THUS...WILL CONTINUE TREND OF HIGHEST MORNING POPS ACROSS THE SOUTHWESTERN ZONES. SHORT TERM MODELS ARE IN RELATIVELY GOOD AGREEMENT ON THE EVOLUTION OF THIS SYSTEM OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS...WITH THE UPPER LOW PROGGED TO MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. GIVEN THE HEAVY RAINFALL THAT OCCURRED OVER PORTIONS OF THE REGION YESTERDAY...AND IN ANTICIPATION OF ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL TODAY...WE HAVE ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF A LINE FROM BRECKENRIDGE...TO STEPHENVILLE AND WACO. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THE ACTIVITY TODAY...AS STORM MOTION VECTORS ARE SMALL AND SOME TRAINING WILL LIKELY OCCUR. RAINFALL WILL ONCE AGAIN BE MORE ISOLATED AWAY FROM THE UPPER LOW...MAINLY ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE AREA. HOWEVER...ENHANCED CLOUD COVER WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL...EVEN IN THIS REGION. ANOTHER ROUND OF NOCTURNAL CONVECTION IS ANTICIPATED TONIGHT...BUT THE UPPER LOW SHOULD BE JUST SOUTH OF THE KFWD FORECAST AREA BY THIS TIME. WILL PLACE HIGHEST POPS ACROSS THE SOUTH THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING...BUT MAINTAIN VERY LOW CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE NORTHERN AREAS. THE UPPER LOW SHOULD BEGIN TO SHEAR AND WEAKEN SIGNIFICANTLY DURING THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY...AS UPPER-LEVEL RIDGING APPROACHES FROM BOTH THE WEST AND THE EAST. HOWEVER...WILL NEED TO MAINTAIN SLIGHT CHANCE POPS GIVEN LINGERING BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE AND WEAK LIFT. DRY CONDITIONS STILL APPEAR IN STORE FOR THE END OF THE WEEK...WITH INCREASING SUBSIDENCE/DRYING ALOFT AND LACK OF SUBSTANTIAL LARGE SCALE FORCING FOR UPWARD VERTICAL MOTION LENDING CREDENCE TO THIS IDEA. TEMPERATURES WILL WARM BACK INTO THE UPPER 90S TO NEAR 100...BEFORE INCREASING LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE SPREADS BACK ACROSS THE AREA BY THE END OF THE WEEKEND. MEDIUM RANGE GFSLR/ECMWF GUIDANCE STILL DEPICTS A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVING INTO THE THE SOUTHERN PLAINS BY THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK...AND THIS FEATURE SHOULD BRING AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA BY MONDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 92 73 95 75 / 50 30 20 10 WACO, TX 87 72 92 74 / 70 40 20 10 PARIS, TX 94 72 96 72 / 30 20 20 10 DENTON, TX 93 72 95 74 / 50 20 20 10 MCKINNEY, TX 93 72 95 74 / 30 20 20 10 DALLAS, TX 92 73 94 75 / 50 30 20 10 TERRELL, TX 92 72 94 74 / 50 30 20 10 CORSICANA, TX 90 72 92 74 / 50 30 20 10 TEMPLE, TX 85 72 91 72 / 70 40 20 10 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. && 65/DD
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 515 AM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-101100- 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- 515 AM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM GENERALLY ALONG AND TO THE SOUTHWEST OF A LINE ROUGHLY FROM BRECKENRIDGE...TO STEPHENVILLE...TO WACO...AND TO TEMPLE. SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE RAINFALL RATES OF 2 INCHES AN HOUR OVER ALL OF NORTH TEXAS TODAY...WITH THE HIGHEST COVERAGE AND GREATEST RISK OF FLOODING OCCURRING IN THE FLOOD WATCH AREA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL. AS ALWAYS...ALL THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS WEDNESDAY BEFORE DRY WEATHER SETTLES IN LATE IN THE WEEK. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE AREA ON SUNDAY EVENING AND MONDAY 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...BUT ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... VERY LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TODAY. 92
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
742 AM CDT TUE AUG 09 2005
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0742 AM FLASH FLOOD KILLEEN 31.10N 97.72W
08/09/2005 BELL TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
HIGH WATER AND VEHICLES STRANDED ACROSS CITYThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
6 flash flood, 2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash flooding in and around Harker Heights. Highway 190 under water and barricaded in several places. At least three homes were evacuated. Vehicles were stranded across the county.
Several roads closed due to high water.
Flooding was reported at Interstate 35 at mile marker 283 and at the 600 block of Frontier Trail. Homes were evacuated and shelters set up across the county.
Streets flooded west of Cisco.
The intersection of county roads 306 and 307 was flooded as well as a few other nearby roads.
Route 320 underwater near Westphalia.
FM 2495 closed between Cisco and Putnam due to flooding. Numerous other streets flooded in Cisco.
Nolanville Creek flooding...voluntary evacuations were performed.
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: 5471269, 5471270, 5471271, 5471272, 5471273, 5471274, 5471275, 5471276.