Two fatalities resulted from this heat wave in Morgan County, Alabama.
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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 episode as NWS HUN wrote it up.
Two fatalities resulted from this heat wave in Morgan County, Alabama.
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 Huntsville, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 12, 7:24 PM CST, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 824 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2007 .UPDATE... CONVECTION CONTINUES OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AGAIN AND SOUTHERN GEORGIA AGAIN THIS EVENING ALONG THE STALLED OUT FRONT. THIS BOUNDARY WILL ONLY BE PUSHED FURTHER SOUTHEAST INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...AS UPPER LEVEL RIDGING WILL BUILD OVER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY. VERY STRONG HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM...598 DECAMETERS AT 500 MB... CONTINUES TO BE CENTERED OVER THE CENTRAL US...WITH 594 DECAMETER HEIGHTS EXTENDING EASTWARD INTO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY. THE STRONG HEATING AND SUBSIDENCE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO KEEP US IN A HEAT WAVE. RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES WERE TIED AT BOTH AT THE HUNTSVILLE INTERNATIONAL (101) AND AT THE MUSCLE SHOALS AIRPORTS (102). BOTH RECORDS WERE PREVIOUSLY SET IN 1935. TEMPERATURES CURRENTLY HAVE DROPPED OFF UNDER CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS INTO THE MID TO UPPER 80S...WITH A FEW PLACES STILLL IN THE LOW 90S. PERSISTENCE FORECAST GIVEN PATTERN...AND LAST NIGHT TEMPERATURES HAD A 30 TO 35 DEGREES RANGE...WITH AROUND A 35 DEGREE DROP IN LOCATIONS MAINLY WEST OF INTERSTATE 65. THEREFORE ...BASED ON HIGH TEMPERATURES REACHED TODAY...CURRENT RANGES IN BOTH ZONES LOOK GOOD. LOW TEMPERATURES SHOULD REMAIN A FEW DEGREES WARMER IN WESTERN ZONE (67 TO 73) VERSUS 65 TO 70...DUE TO HIGHER AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES. && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. TN...NONE. && 20
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 838 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2007 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-131000- COLBERT-CULLMAN-DE KALB-FRANKLIN AL-FRANKLIN TN-JACKSON-LAUDERDALE- LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-LINCOLN-MADISON-MARSHALL-MOORE-MORGAN- 838 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... HOT...POTENTIALLY RECORD-BREAKING...TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE FOR MOST OF THE UPCOMING WORK WEEK. HEAT INDEX VALUES OVER 105 ARE LIKELY EACH AFTERNOON...POSSIBLY APPROACHING 110 BY THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. BY NEXT WEEKEND...HIGH PRESSURE WILL WEAKEN AND MOISTURE WILL INCREASE. AS A RESULT...THERE WILL BE A SMALL CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. KTW
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A 59 year old female of Decatur passed away on the 15th. The woman was found in her residence where the temperature exceeded 100 degrees.
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, Morgan | 2007-08-15 | 59 | Female | Permanent Home | Direct |
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