Heat, Barry
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Barry forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 36.710, -93.829 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat in Missouri, August 1 to 18, 1999
Periodic excessive heat continued from July into early and mid August with temperatures exceeding 95 deg F on 8 (non consecutive) days. Daytime heat index values frequently reached 100 deg F or greater.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 34 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 2
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 34
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 SGF wrote it up.
Periodic excessive heat continued from July into early and mid August with temperatures exceeding 95 deg F on 8 (non consecutive) days. Daytime heat index values frequently reached 100 deg F or greater. Two deaths were attributed to the heat in Ozark County on the 4th and 10th.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
34 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
Heat, Barton
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Barton forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.502, -94.347 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Benton
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Benton forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 38.295, -93.288 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Camden
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Camden forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 38.027, -92.766 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Cedar
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cedar forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.724, -93.857 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Christian
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Christian forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 36.970, -93.189 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Dade
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dade forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.432, -93.850 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Dallas
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dallas forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.680, -93.024 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Dent
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dent forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.607, -91.508 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Douglas
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 36.933, -92.499 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Greene
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Greene forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.258, -93.342 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Hickory
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hickory forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.941, -93.321 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Howell
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Howell forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 36.774, -91.886 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Jasper
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.204, -94.341 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Laclede
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Laclede forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.658, -92.590 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Lawrence
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lawrence forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.106, -93.833 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Maries
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Maries forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 38.162, -91.925 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, McDonald
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- McDonald forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 36.629, -94.348 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Miller
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Miller forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 38.215, -92.428 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Morgan
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Morgan forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 38.424, -92.886 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Newton
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Newton forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 36.906, -94.339 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Oregon
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Oregon forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 36.687, -91.403 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Ozark
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ozark forecast zone
- Deaths
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 36.649, -92.445 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Phelps
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Phelps forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.877, -91.792 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Polk
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Polk forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.617, -93.400 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Pulaski
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Pulaski forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.825, -92.208 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Shannon
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Shannon forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.157, -91.400 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, St. Clair
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- St. Clair forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 38.037, -93.776 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Stone
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Stone forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 36.747, -93.456 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Taney
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Taney forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 36.655, -93.041 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Texas
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Texas forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.317, -91.965 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Vernon
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Vernon forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.851, -94.342 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Webster
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Webster forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.281, -92.876 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Wright
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM CST to August 18, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Wright forecast zone
- Reported by
- GOVT OFFICIAL
- Coordinates
- 37.270, -92.469 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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, Ozark | 1999-08-04 | 62 | Male | Permanent Home | Direct |
| Heat, Ozark | 1999-08-10 | 92 | Female | Permanent Home | 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
- Heat in South Carolina, August 1 to 31, 1999
- Heat in Texas, August 1 to 31, 1999
- Heat in Pennsylvania, August 1, 1999
- Heat in Texas, August 1 to 31, 1999
- Heat in Alabama, August 1 to 2, 1999
- Heat in South Carolina, August 1, 1999
- Heat in South Carolina, August 1 to 2, 1999
- Heat in Texas, August 1, 1999
- Heat in Arkansas, August 1, 1999
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Florida, August 1 to 11, 1999
- Heat and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 1 to 2, 1999
- Drought in Virginia, August 1 to 31, 1999
More
Every storm in Missouri in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5716611, 5716612, 5716613, 5716614, 5716702, 5716703, 5716704, 5716705, 5716706, 5716707, 5716708, 5716709, 5716710, 5716711, 5716712, 5716713, 5716714, 5716715, 5716716, 5716717, 5716718, 5716719, 5716720, 5716721, 5716722, 5716723, 5716724, 5716725, 5716726, 5716727, 5716728, 5716729, 5716730, 5716731.