Heat, Orleans
- When
- August 14, 10:00 AM CST to 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Orleans forecast zone
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
Heat in Louisiana, August 14, 1999
At an outdoor rally for public schools in New Orleans, 25 people were treated for heat related illness with 2 people sent to the hospital for treatement
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS LIX wrote it up.
At an outdoor rally for public schools in New Orleans, 25 people were treated for heat related illness with 2 people sent to the hospital for treatement
Event by event
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Tornado in Montana, August 14, 1999
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, August 14, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 14, 1999
- Heat in Texas, August 14, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 14, 1999
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Maryland, August 14, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, August 14, 1999
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Virginia, August 14, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, August 14, 1999
- Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, August 14, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 14, 1999
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Georgia, August 14, 1999
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, August 1999
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5723854.