California, 2007Heat in California, July 25, 2007
July 25, 2007 · NWS MTR · 1 event in 1 county or zone
An 11-month-old boy died in the back seat of the family car in Concord on July 25,2007 after his father apparently forgot to drop him off at day care and instead left him locked inside the vehicle while he spent the day at work.
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- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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An 11-month-old boy died in the back seat of the family car in Concord on July 25,2007 after his father apparently forgot to drop him off at day care and instead left him locked inside the vehicle while he spent the day at work.
What forecasters said that day
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 San Francisco Bay Area, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 25, 2:15 AM PST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 2:15 AM PST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA
315 AM PDT WED JUL 25 2007
.DISCUSSION...LOW CLOUDS AND FOG HAVE SPREAD BACK ONSHORE PER
FORECAST WITH THE DEPTH OF THE MARINE LAYER AROUND 1700 FEET MSL.
WITH LESS MID/HIGH CLOUDS THAN 24 HOURS AGO...INLAND TEMPERATURES
HAVE RETURNED TO SEASONAL READINGS WITH BETTER RADIATIONAL
COOLING BENEATH CLEARED SKIES. ONSHORE PRESSURE GRADIENTS SIMILAR
WITH SFO-SAC RUNNING 3.2MB AND DOWN ONLY SLIGHTLY COMPARED TO
24 HRS AGO.
NUMERICAL MODEL SOLUTIONS CHANGE LITTLE WITH THE 00Z RUNS SO
PERSISTENCE IS FORECAST FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST TODAY WITH
RELATIVELY CONSISTENT AND MODERATE ONSHORE GRADIENTS...SIMILAR MARINE
LAYER DEPTH...AND ONLY SUBTLE CHANGES IN THE GENERAL SYNOPTIC
PATTERN. SYNOPTIC PATTERN ONE OF CONSISTENCY THROUGH DAY 7. OVERALL
HEIGHT CHANGES FOR THE ENTIRE 3 DAYS IS ONLY 30M AT 500MB. HIGH
PRESSURE ALOFT OVER MID-CONTINENT AND BUILT WESTWARD COMBINED WITH
VERY WEAK LOW PRESSURE IN THE EAST PACIFIC RESULTS IN A WEAK BUT DRY
SOUTHWEST WIND FLOW ALOFT OVER THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST. HAVE
MADE ONLY VERY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS IN FORECAST WEATHER PARAMETERS PER
THE MINOR CHANGES IN FORECAST THICKNESS VALUES. AT THE SURFACE...
NIGHT AND MORNING COASTAL STRATUS/FOG WITH SEASONALLY COOL AIR WILL
BE THE NORM WHILE INLAND LOCATIONS WILL REMAIN DRY AND SLOWLY WARM
THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK.
&&
.PREVIOUS AVIATION...AN INFLUX OF MARINE LAYER CLOUDS CONTINUES THIS
EVENING...A BIT FASTER THAN EARLIER ANTICIPATED. STS STILL REPORTS
SKC BUT A NARROWING TEMP/DEWPOINT TEMP SPREAD WILL LIKELY LEAD TO A
LOW CLOUD DECK AND/OR FOG IN A COUPLE HOURS OR SO. ONSHORE WINDS WILL
CONTINUE OVERNIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.
&&
.MTR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.TDY SCA...PT ARENA TO PT PIEDRAS BLANCAS AND SFO BAY.
&&
PUBLIC FORECAST: D GUDGEL
AVIATION/MARINE: R CANEPA/W PI
NWS ON THE WEB AT WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCOHeat, East Bay Interior Valleys
- When
- July 25, 7:00 AM PST to 4:00 PM PST
- Where
- East Bay Interior Valleys forecast zone
- Deaths
- 0 direct, 1 indirect
- Reported by
- Newspaper
- Coordinates
- 37.787, -121.934 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
An 11-month-old boy died in the back seat of the family car in Concord on July 25,2007 after his father apparently forgot to drop him off at day care and instead left him locked inside the vehicle while he spent the day at work. High temperatures in the area were generally around 85. |
- 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.
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 25 to 26, 2007$551,000 · 0.88 in hail · 10 events
- Flash Flooding in Wyoming, July 25, 2007$585,000 · 5 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 25, 2007$101,000 · 50 kt wind · 5 events
- Flash Flood in Arizona, July 25, 2007$100,000 · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, July 25 to 26, 2007$35,000 · 1 in hail · 4 events
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Utah, July 25, 2007$30,000 · 1 in hail · 6 events
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 25, 200715 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 25, 20071 in hail · 12 events
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Alabama, July 25, 200752 kt wind · 11 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 25, 20071 in hail · 11 events
- Flash Flood in California, July 25, 2007$15,000 · 1 event
- Flash Flooding and Hail in California, July 25 to 26, 20071 in hail · 6 events
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: 38087.