A 47 year old railroad worker collapsed of heat exhaustion after working all day in the summer heat. Temperatures were in the upper 90s and heat indices were around 103.
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 TSA wrote it up.
A 47 year old railroad worker collapsed of heat exhaustion after working all day in the summer heat. Temperatures were in the upper 90s and heat indices were around 103. The man died shortly after being transported to a hospital.
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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 2, 1:35 AM CST, 7 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 235 AM CDT THU AUG 2 2007 .DISCUSSION... PERSISTENCE WILL BE LARGELY WEIGHTED WITH THIS FORECAST AS OVERALL PATTERN REMAINS LARGELY STAGNANT ACROSS OUR AREA. WEAK COLD FRONT CURRENTLY LOCATED ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL CONTINUE SOUTHWARD...AND BE A FOCUS FOR CONVECTION TO OUR NORTH TODAY AND TONIGHT. THIS BOUNDARY /OR RESULTANT CONVECTIVE OUTFLOW/ MAY ATTEMPT A BRIEF INTRUSION INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA EARLY SATURDAY MORNING...HOWEVER ANY PRECIP CHANCE ASSOCIATED WITH THE BOUNDARY APPEARS SUFFICIENTLY SMALL BENEATH BUILDING UPPER RIDGE TO REFRAIN FROM MENTION IN THE FORECAST. ADDITIONALLY...POCKET OF MORE MOIST 850 DEWPOINTS OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S THAT ALIGNED WELL WITH AFTERNOON CONVECTION WILL BE ROTATING WESTWARD AND INTO THE AREA WITH TIME. AGAIN...THIS INCREASE IN MOISTURE WILL BE BENEATH STRENGTHENING UPPER RIDGE WITH ANY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE EXPECTED TO REMAIN LESS THAN 20 PERCENT. TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN A GRADUAL INCREASE INTO THE WEEKEND...WITH PREVIOUS FORECAST AND LATEST GUIDANCE CLOSELY CLUSTERED AND NEEDING MINIMAL CHANGE. A CLIMATOLOGICALLY FAVORED PATTERN FOR EARLY AUGUST WILL PREVAIL FOR NEXT WEEK. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO WARM WITH READINGS AT OR ABOVE NORMAL EXPECTED FOR SEVERAL DAYS. AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAINS AREAS ARE POSSIBLE...BUT EXPECT DAILY COVERAGE TO BE ISOLATED AND WILL PRECLUDE MENTION IN TEXT FORECAST. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TUL 94 74 94 75 / 10 10 10 10 FSM 94 73 95 74 / 10 10 10 10 MLC 93 71 94 71 / 10 10 10 10 BVO 94 69 94 69 / 10 10 10 10 FYV 91 68 91 68 / 10 10 10 10 BYV 92 69 92 69 / 10 10 10 10 MKO 94 71 94 72 / 10 10 10 10 MIO 94 72 93 71 / 10 10 10 10 F10 93 71 93 71 / 10 10 10 10 HHW 93 72 94 72 / 10 10 10 10 && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM...06 LONG TERM....07
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 509 AM CDT THU AUG 2 2007 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-022215- ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK- CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK- LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK- OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK- PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK- WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR- 509 AM CDT THU AUG 2 2007 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. DANGEROUS HEAT. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...ENTIRE AREA. ONSET...THIS AFTERNOON. DISCUSSION... AS HAS BEEN EXPECTED... AN UPPER RIDGE WILL BEGIN BUILDING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. THIS WILL RESULT IN WARMING TEMPERATURES OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THIS AFTERNOON... HEAT INDICES WILL BE OVER 100 IN MANY LOCATIONS RESULTING IN A DANGEROUS HEAT SITUATION. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FRIDAY...NO HAZARDS. SATURDAY...NO HAZARDS. SUNDAY...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL. MONDAY...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL. TUESDAY...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL. WEDNESDAY...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... AS THE UPPER RIDGE BECOMES FULLY ENTRENCHED ACROSS THE REGION OVER THE WEEKEND... DANGEROUS HEAT WILL BECOME EVEN MORE OF A CONCERN. AS AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE MID 90S... HEAT INDEX VALUES IN THE LOW TO MID 100S WILL BE COMMON. WITH OVERNIGHT MINIMUM TEMPERATES TENDING TO WARM UP GOING INTO NEXT WEEK... HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA MAY BE APPROACHED. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL INFORMATION.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A 47 year old railroad worker collapsed of heat exhaustion after working all day in the summer heat. Temperatures were in the upper 90s and heat indices were around 103. The man died shortly after being transported to a hospital.
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, Le Flore | 2007-08-02 | 47 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
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