1 lightning, 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 Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 1, 1:40 PM PST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA 240 PM PDT SAT OCT 1 2005 .SYNOPSIS...A LARGE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION THROUGH MONDAY...BRINGING COOL AND SHOWERY WEATHER. WESTERLY FLOW WILL BRING ADDITIONAL WEATHER SYSTEMS TO THE REGION NEXT WEEK. && .SHORT TERM...AN UPPER TROUGH WILL BE OVER WESTERN WASHINGTON FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF FEW DAYS. FOR NOW...SHOWERS HAVE DECIDED TO SET UP MOSTLY SEATTLE SOUTH BUT BASICALLY THEY WILL BE LIKELY ALL AREAS INTO THIS EVENING. A FEW ONE SXTERMTRIKE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PROBABLY LINGER INTO THIS EVENING AS WELL. SHOWERS SHOULD WANE A BIT LATER TONIGHT WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. A SHORT WAVE ADVERTISED FOR SUNDAY IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE THE SHOWER THREAT ONCE AGAIN. IT LOOKS A LITTLE MORE STABLE SUNDAY. WILL LEAVE MENTION OF THUNDER OUT OF FORECAST FOR SUNDAY ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE. MORE OF THE SAME FOR MONDAY WITH PERHAPS LESS SHOWER ACTIVITY WITH NO ORGANIZED DYNAMICS. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD BRIEFLEY OVER WESTERN WASHINGTON TUESDAY. A FEW SHOWERS COULD LINGER INTO THE MORNING HOURS AND THERE WILL BE AN INCREASING CHANCE OF RAIN AGAIN LATE IN THE DAY WITH AN APPROACHING FRONTAL SYSTEM. WITH TIMING UNCERTAINTY...WILL LEAVE LOW CHANCE POPS IN FORECAST FOR TUESDAY. SUSPECT MOST AREAS WILL BE DRY. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE A BIT BELOW NORMAL SUNDAY AND MONDAY WITH LOW SNOW LEVELS FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR WITH THE UPPER TROUGH OVERHEAD. HIGHS SHOULD WARM TO NEAR NORMAL TUESDAY. SCHNEIDER .LONG TERM...A REASONABLY ORGANIZED SYSTEM IS STILL FORECAST TO MOVE THROUGH THE REGION WEDNESDAY FOR WIDESPREAD PRECIP. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ARE PRETTY CONSISTENT WITH TRANSITORY RIDGING ON THURSDAY WITH RISING HEIGHTS AND TEMPERATURES RETURNING TO NEAR NORMAL. RIDGING IS SHORT-LIVED AS SOMEWHAT ZONAL FLOW RETURNS BY NEXT WEEKEND WITH A SERIES OF A HARD-TO-TIME SYSTEMS RIDING THROUGH. A CONTINUED UNSETTLED FORECAST WITH BROADBRUSH PRECIP CHANCES IS THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION FOR THURSDAY AND BEYOND. IF THE CHANGE OF SEASONS WERE LIKE MUSIC...ONE MIGHT SAY OUR OCTOBER SYMPHONY HAS BEGUN. 27 && .AVIATION...CIGS GENLY 5-7K FT WITH SCT 5-6SM SHRA CIGS BKN025. THE THREAT OF TSRAGS WL END ABT 02Z. THEN EXPECT SHWRS TO BECM ISOLD BY 06Z BEFORE INCRG IN COVERAGE AGAIN AFT 12Z. CIGS BKN-OVC025 BECMG A LTL MORE WDSPRD AFT 11Z AS A SFC TROF NEARS THE WA CST. OUTLOOK 12-18Z...GENLY MVFR CIGS. AT KSEA...NLY WNDS TO 7 KT BECMG VRB03KT BY 06Z. && .SEW WATCHES/WARNING/ADVISORIES...NONE. && .KATX...VCP21/CSR21 OPERATIONAL. && WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
555 PM PDT SAT OCT 01 2005
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0542 PM HAIL 4 S EDMONDS 47.77N 122.36W
10/01/2005 0.25 INCH KING WA TRAINED SPOTTER
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CERNIGLIAThe Seattle radar (KATX), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:02 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
3 lightning strikes knocked out power to nearly 6000 homes in the Edmonds area. One strike ruptured a natural gas line which started a small fire.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, October 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: 5477637.