Heat in Alabama, June 22, 1998

Name: Heat in Alabama, June 22, 1998
Start: 1998-06-22T16:00
End: 1998-06-22T17:00
Location: Alabama

June 22, 1998 · NWS MOB · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 heat, as filed by the National Weather Service.

The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

Event by event

1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.

Heat, Upper Mobile

When: June 22, 4:00 PM CST to 5:00 PM CST
Where: Upper Mobile forecast zone
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER

A three year old boy in Mobile was left inside a van at a day care center all day. He was not discovered until the late afternoon and had been dead for a few hours. He died of heat stroke. The outside temperatures in the Mobile area were in the low to middle 90s during the day with a heat index of around 105 degrees. Temperatures inside the closed van were estimated to be hotter than 160 degrees.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Heat, Upper Mobile	1998-06-22	3	Male	Vehicle/Towed Trailer	Direct

What these are

Heat: Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Alabama in 1998 Every state in 1998 This day in weather history Warnings in Alabama, June 1998

Sources

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: 5654335.