3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 28, 5:56 AM CST, 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 656 AM CDT SAT MAY 28 2005 .UPDATE... CURRENT PRECIP TRENDS INDICATE AREA OF WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTH AND EAST INTO CWA. HENCE...WILL ISSUE UPDATE TO INCREASE LIKELY POPS AREA THIS MORNING A LITTLE MORE EAST AND NORTH THAN CURRENTLY FORECAST. 42 && .AVIATION... 622 AM... MCS ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL TX WILL SLOWLY WORK E AND NE TO BRING SHRA/TSRA TO AIRPORTS LATER THIS MORNING. SHRA ALREADY AROUND METROPLEX AND KACT SO WILL START OUT WITH TEMPO FOR SHRA AND THEN INCREASE TO PREVAILING -RA BY 20Z. ANOTHER H5 WAVE TO BRING A CHANCE OF PRECIP AGAIN TONIGHT. OTHERWISE...GENERALLY MVFR WITH VIS 3-5SM AND CIGS OVC030-040...WIND E-SE 3 TO 8 KTS. && .DISCUSSION... 308 AM... RATHER COMPLEX PATTERN PERSISTS OVER THE REGION MAKING THIS A DIFFICULT FORECAST. UNCERTAINTY OVER ONGOING MCS IN THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE CWA WILL DICTATE HAVING TO MAKE LAST MINUTE ADJUSTMENTS TO FIRST PERIOD PARAMETERS. WILL WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE FOR THOSE CHANGES BUT FOR NOW HAVE PUBLISHED FIRST ESTIMATES. BASICALLY WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE UNSETTLED WEATHER WELL INTO THE NEW WEEK AS A NUMBER OF DISTURBANCES MOVE THROUGH A SOMEWHAT SPLIT FLOW...MULTI-STREAM FLOW PATTERN. FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS THE MODELS HAVE ALL BEEN RATHER UNDECIDED ON THE LONG TERM SOLUTION AND THE LATEST RUN IS NO EXCEPTION. OUR FORECAST IS PREMISED ON A SOMEWHAT MODIFIED GFS SOLUTION. A WEAK WARM FRONT ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS WILL MOVE SLOWLY NORTH TODAY...SETTING UP A BOUNDARY FOR ENHANCED LIFT/CONVECTION LATER TONIGHT. THE SPEED OF THE FRONT IS DIFFICULT TO ASCERTAIN BUT SHOULD BE IN A POSITION FOR US TO GO WITH HIGHER POPS ALONG THE RED RIVER TONIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY AS A TROF PUSHES EASTWARD IN THE FLOW. THEREAFTER THE PICTURE IS A LITTLE MORE UNCERTAIN AS TO EXACT PLACEMENT OF MAX PRECIP AND HAVE GONE WITH MORE GENERAL COVERAGE. RAIN CHANCES SHOULD DIMINISH THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK THEN PICK UP AGAIN NEXT WEEKEND WITH THE APPROACH OF ANOTHER SYSTEM. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 83 67 83 69 / 60 50 50 50 WACO, TX 83 69 84 71 / 50 30 40 50 PARIS, TX 83 66 83 68 / 40 60 60 50 DENTON, TX 82 66 83 68 / 70 60 60 50 MCKINNEY, TX 83 67 83 69 / 50 60 60 50 DALLAS, TX 83 67 83 69 / 50 50 50 50 TERRELL, TX 84 67 83 69 / 30 50 50 50 CORSICANA, TX 84 68 84 70 / 30 30 40 50 TEMPLE, TX 82 70 84 72 / 40 30 40 50 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. && 80/42
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 303 AM CDT SAT MAY 28 2005 TXZ142-156-280900- LAMPASAS-MILLS- 303 AM CDT SAT MAY 28 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 303 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAN SABA...OR 28 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMPASAS...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ADAMSVILLE...CASTOR... GOLDTHWAITE...KEMPNER...SCALLORN AND STAR. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous portable buildings overturned on FM 439 and Quarry Road.
Golf ball size hail fell.
Quarter size hail fell in Eliott.
Several trees blown down.
Nickel to quarter size hail fell.
Numerous power lines blown down across the city.
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, May 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: 5453817, 5453818, 5453819, 5453820, 5453821, 5453822.