1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 14, 8:45 AM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 945 AM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 .DISCUSSION... 12Z DATA CONFIRMS THE OBVIOUS...ABOVE NORMAL PWS AROUND 2.2 INCHES WITH VIRTUALLY NO CAP ALLOWING CONVECTION TO FIRE ALONG THE COAST. MORE ORGANIZED CONVECTION OVER NORTHERN ZONES BEING HELPED BY SUBTLE BUT IDENTIFIABLE SHORT WAVE. 200MB ANALYSIS SHOWS WEAK SPEED MAX OVER NORTHERN LA AND ANOTHER FROM FAR WEST TEXAS INTO THE HILL COUNTRY. RAINFALL 2 TO 3 INCHES ALREADY CONFIRMS THE OUTLOOK FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. WE EXPECT CENTRAL ZONES TO BE THE FOCUS THIS AFTERNOON AS THEY WILL GET BEST SOLAR HEATING AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARY/SEABREEZE INTERACTION SHOULD PROVIDE FOCUS. EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF STREET FLOODING WHERE THE STRONGER STORMS FORM DUE TO SLOW STORM MOVEMENT AND HIGH PWS. MINOR UPDATES TO GRIDS FOR FIRST PERIOD TO LOWER MAX TEMP A NOTCH AND ADJUST RELATED PARAMETERS. 30 && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 330 AM CDT THU JUL 14 2005) DISCUSSION... CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR ACTIVE CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT ACROSS SE TX FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. AIRMASS WILL REMAIN MOIST AND UNCAPPED THROUGH AT LEAST SATURDAY WITH PWS FORECAST TO REMAIN AT OR ABOVE TWO INCHES. BOTH GFS/ETA INDICATE SOME CHANGES IN THE SYNOPTIC SCALE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. BOTH MODELS FORECAST THE APPROACH OF A WEAK JET MAX AT 250 MB WHICH WILL ACT TO INCREASE UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENCE OVER SE TX BEGINNING THIS AFTN. UPPER DIFFLUENCE BECOMES EVEN MORE PRONOUNCED BY EARLY FRIDAY. MEANWHILE...500 MB TROUGH DEVELOPS OVER CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY/FRIDAY. MODELS FORECAST WEAK SURFACE TO 850 MB TROUGH CURRENTLY JUST NORTH OF THE AREA TO REMAIN IN PLACE AND SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR POOLING MOISTURE AND CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT PRIMARILY FOR OUR NRN ZONES. THE OTHER CONVECTIVE FOCUS FOR OUR AREA WILL BE THE SEABREEZE. MODEL FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW CONVECTIVE TEMPS AGAIN IN THE UPPER 80S/AROUND 90 TODAY SO THINK SETUP WILL BE SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY WITH ACTIVITY DEVELOPING NEAR THE COAST EARLY THIS MORNING AND THEN INLAND TOWARD MIDDAY. WILL GO CHANCE POPS THIS MORNING...LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON. STILL THINK FRIDAY WILL SEE THE MOST WIDESPREAD COVERAGE OF PRECIP AS THIS IS WHEN WE SEE THE BEST DIFFLUENCE AND LOWEST CONVECTIVE TEMPS. WENT LIKELY POPS AREA WIDE AND LOWERED TEMPS. GIVEN SLOW STORM MOTION AND HIGH PWS...WILL MENTION LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN THE FORECAST AND HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK TODAY AND FRIDAY. AN ISOLATED PULSE-TYPE SEVERE STORM IS ALSO POSSIBLE...BUT THE OVERALL THREAT IS QUITE LOW. 500 MB RIDGE SLOWLY BEGINS TO BUILD ACROSS THE AREA BY EARLY NEXT WEEK...HOWEVER ATMOSPHERE WILL BE SLOW TO DRY OUT. KEPT WITH TREND OF LOWERING POPS BEGINNING SUNDAY BUT GENERALLY KEPT POPS IN CHANCE CATEGORY. TPC FORECAST HAS HURRICANE EMILY IN THE SOUTHWESTERN GULF MONDAY NIGHT. ANY IMPACTS AT ALL FROM THIS SYSTEM WOULD BE FELT BEGINNING TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY. 35 MARINE... THE PRESSURE GRADIENT IS RELATIVELY WEAK BUT WINDS ARE UP TO 15 KNOTS OFFSHORE. THINK THIS DIURNAL TREND OF WIND SPEEDS HIGHER AT NIGHT AND LOWER DURING THE DAY WILL CONTINUE. EMILY NOW FORECAST TO ENTER THE SOUTHWESTERN GULF MONDAY NIGHT AND EFFECTS...IF ANY...WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT MARINE AREAS ON TUESDAY. 43 AVIATION... PERSISTENCE SEEMS THE WAY TO GO. LOW CONVECTIVE TEMPS AND HIGH PWS WOULD INDICATE ANOTHER ACTIVE DAY WITH TSRA AFFECTING TAF SITES DURING THE MORNING FOR GLS/LBX...EARLY AFTERNOON AT HOU AND MID TO LATE AFTERNOON IAH/CLL. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN. TAF SITES TO REMAIN VFR EXCEPT IN AND AROUND TSRA. 43 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... COLLEGE STATION (CLL) 90 76 93 75 93 / 60 30 60 30 50 HOUSTON (IAH) 91 75 91 74 91 / 60 30 60 30 50 GALVESTON (GLS) 89 82 89 81 89 / 50 40 60 30 50 && .HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .TX...NONE. .GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 700 AM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 GMZ330-335-TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-151200- AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-BRAZOS-BURLESON-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND-GALVESTON- GALVESTON BAY-GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON-JACKSON-LIBERTY-MADISON-MATAGORDA- MATAGORDA BAY-MONTGOMERY-POLK-SAN JACINTO-TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER- WASHINGTON-WHARTON- 700 AM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS TODAY AND FRIDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. DAYTIME HEATING WILL COMBINE WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS TODAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE TODAY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS TODAY WILL AVERAGE AROUND 1/2 INCH. HOWEVER...ISOLATED STORMS COULD PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THIS RAINFALL COULD LEAD TO MINOR FLOODING OF STREETS...FEEDER ROADS...FREEWAY UNDERPASSES...OR OTHER LOW LYING SPOTS. THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF ONE OR TWO STORMS BRIEFLY BECOMING SEVERE TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SIMILAR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ON FRIDAY WITH SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING PROBLEMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The Houston radar (KHGX), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:50 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A large tree limb from a sixty foot tall pine tree fell on a home and caused significant roof, rafter and insulation damage.
Lightning strike victim was near a circuit breaker box when the strike occurred. Twenty-nine others in the home were not injured.
Flash flooding along Interstate 10 East in the Uvalde and Cloverleaf areas and also in and around Downtown Houston and the University of Houston areas. Ten homes and two apartments in the Cloverleaf area had flood damage. Some rainfall amounts/rates measured by Harris County rainfall gages included: 0.75" in 5 minutes, 1.81" in 15 minutes and 2.64" in 30 minutes at Carpenters Bayou@Wallisville (Gage ID 1440), 3.31" in 1 hour at Buffalo Bayou@Shephard (Gage ID 2240) and 4.84" in 3 hours at Carpenters Bayou@I-10 (Gage ID 1420).
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, July 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: 5458958, 5458959, 5458960.