Unusually warm temperatures in the upper 90s caused one heat related fatality.
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 MEG wrote it up.
Unusually warm temperatures in the upper 90s caused one heat related fatality.
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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 1, 8:56 AM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 956 AM CDT WED AUG 1 2007 .UPDATE... CURRENT FORECAST IS FINE AND NO UPDATES ARE NEEDED ATTM. AUGUST IS GETTING OFF TO TYPICAL START WEATHERWISE THIS YEAR...THAT IS HOT AND HAZY. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS DRIER AIR AT THE MID AND UPPER LEVELS SPREADING INTO THE MID-SOUTH FROM THE NORTHEAST...WHICH WILL HELP TO SUPPRESS CONVECTION FOR MUCH OF THE AREA. LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATES A WEAK INVERTED SURFACE TROUGH ALONG THE MS RIVER. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY POP UP ALONG THIS TROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...BUT THINK THE CHANCE IS TOO LOW TO MENTION IN THE FORECAST. HOWEVER...WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR. JCL && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 238 AM CDT WED AUG 1 2007/ DISCUSSION... SKIES ARE MOSTLY CLEAR EARLY THIS MORNING WITH TEMPERATURES REMAINING VERY WARM WITH READINGS IN THE 70S TO LOWER 80S. UPPER LEVEL RIDGE CURRENTLY ENCOMPASSES MUCH OF THE WESTERN 2/3RDS OF THE U.S. AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO DO SO FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THIS WILL MEAN CONTINUED HOT WEATHER THROUGH AT LEAST THE WEEKEND. HAZY CONDITIONS SHOULD CONTINUE TODAY AND TONIGHT BUT SHOULD GRADUALLY IMPROVE LATER IN THE WEEK. WHILE DRY WEATHER SHOULD BE FOUND OVER MOST OF THE REGION...CANT RULE OUT SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS LIKE THERE WERE ON TUESDAY. HEAT INDICES MAY START EXCEEDING 100 AS EARLY AS FRIDAY AND WILL REMAIN HIGH DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS THROUGH TUESDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MEM 97 77 96 76 / 10 0 10 10 MKL 96 69 95 69 / 10 0 10 10 JBR 95 70 95 72 / 0 0 10 10 TUP 96 73 95 72 / 10 0 10 10 && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. MO...NONE. MS...NONE. TN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 303 AM CDT WED AUG 1 2007 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115- MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-021015- ALCORN-BENTON(MS)-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-COAHOMA- CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DESOTO-DECATUR-DUNKLIN-DYER- FAYETTE-GIBSON-GREENE-HARDEMAN-HARDIN-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-HENRY- ITAWAMBA-LAFAYETTE-LAKE-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEE(AR)-LEE(MS)- MADISON-MARSHALL-MCNAIRY-MISSISSIPPI-MONROE-OBION-PANOLA-PEMISCOT- PHILLIPS-POINSETT-PONTOTOC-PRENTISS-QUITMAN-RANDOLPH-SHELBY- ST. FRANCIS-TALLAHATCHIE-TATE-TIPPAH-TIPTON-TISHOMINGO-TUNICA- UNION-WEAKLEY-YALOBUSHA- 303 AM CDT WED AUG 1 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS... THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE HOTTEST AIR OF THE SEASON WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE MIDSOUTH BY THE END OF THIS WEEK. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S AND HIGH HUMIDITY WILL YIELD HEAT INDICES NEAR 105 DEGREES. HEAT ADVISORIES MAY BE NEEDED FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 excessive heat. Local standard time, as filed.
Unusually warm temperatures in the upper 90s caused one heat related fatality at Gibson County High School.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excessive Heat, Gibson | 2007-08-01 | Male | Ball Field | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, August 2007
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: 57889.