Two fatalities resulted from this heat wave in Morgan County, Alabama.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 8, 8:35 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
935 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007
.UPDATE...
WITH A QUIET NIGHT IN STORE FOR THE AREA TONIGHT...NO MAJOR
CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE CURRENT FORECAST. SKIES ARE CLEAR AND LOW
TEMPS SHOULD HOVER IN THE MID 70S TONIGHT. THE MAIN STORY FOR
TOMORROW...AGAIN...WILL BE THE HEAT. MANY AREAS TODAY REACHED THE
100 DEGREE MARK...AND LIKELY WILL AGAIN TOMORROW...IF NOT A DEGREE
OR SO HIGHER. THE HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL FRIDAY...WHEN
THE COLD FRONT IS POISED TO MOVE ACROSS THE VALLEY LATE FRIDAY NIGHT
INTO SATURDAY. THIS SHOULD DROP TEMPS TO THE MID 90S AND LOWER
DEWPOINTS...MAKING THE WEATHER A LITTLE MORE BEARABLE THAN THE PAST
FEW DAYS.
&&
.HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AL...HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
COLBERT...CULLMAN...DE KALB...FRANKLIN AL...JACKSON...
LAUDERDALE...LAWRENCE...LIMESTONE...MADISON...MARSHALL...
AND MORGAN.
TN...HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
FRANKLIN TN...LINCOLN...AND MOORE.
&&
12HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 845 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-090945- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 845 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...OVERNIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... TRIPLE DIGIT TEMPERATURES ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON THURSDAY AND THUS THE HEAT ADVISORY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT TOMORROW AS THE HEAT WAVE CONTINUES. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR ON FRIDAY AHEAD OF A WEAK COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE REGION. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A 64 year old male of Lacey's Springs passed away on the 9th. The man was found in his 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 | 2007-08-09 | 64 | Male | Permanent Structure | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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