High temperatures in the lower to mid 90s and dewpoints in the lower 70s produced heat index values between 99 and 104 degrees on the 14th in Franklin county. Tragically, a four year old boy died in the Waco community due to the hot temperatures.
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The episode as NWS HUN wrote it up.
High temperatures in the lower to mid 90s and dewpoints in the lower 70s produced heat index values between 99 and 104 degrees on the 14th in Franklin county. Tragically, a four year old boy died in the Waco community due to the hot temperatures.
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 Jun 14, 8:47 AM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 947 AM CDT MON JUN 14 2010 .UPDATE...MORNING FCST AND AVIATION UPDATE. MINOR ADJUSTMENTS FORTHCOMING TO GRIDS/ZFP...MAINLY INVOLVING TEMPS...DEWPTS...AND APPARENT TEMPS. && .DISCUSSION... IT IS YET ANOTHER VERY WARM AND MUGGY MORNING ACROSS THE TENN VALLEY...AND NEARLY A CARBON COPY OF YESTERDAY. AIR TEMPS ARE RISING INTO THE MID/UPPER 80S ALREADY ONCE AGAIN...THOUGH IN SOME CASES DEWPOINTS ARE ACTUALLY A DEGREE OR 2 HIGHER THAN YESTERDAY. SKIES STARTED OUT MOSTLY CLEAR...BUT A CU FIELD HAS QUICKLY DEVELOPED. AN UPPER HIGH REMAINS CENTERED OVER NCNTRL MS WHILE BROAD BUT WEAK HIGH PRESSURE PERSISTS AT THE SFC. IT IS TOUGHER TO DISCERN OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THIS MORNING...BUT IT APPEARS THAT SOME WEAK CONVERGENCE CONTINUES OVER SRN MID TN. WOULD EXPECT THE REST OF TODAY TO YIELD MORE OF THE SAME: HOT AND HUMID WITH HEAT INDEX READINGS NEARING HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA /105F/ AND VERY ISOLATED SHRA/TSRA THAT DO NOT LAST VERY LONG. WILL MAKE A FEW TWEAKS TO THE GRIDS TO MATCH THE OBSERVED TRENDS...BUT ONGOING FCST HANDLES THIS TREND QUITE WELL OTHERWISE. && .AVIATION...UPDATED FROM 12Z... VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THRU THE EVENING HRS. ISLTD TSRA WILL REMAIN A POSSIBILITY THIS AFTN...BUT COVERAGE/UNCERTAINTY ARE TOO LOW TO INCLUDE IN THE TAFS ATTM. EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF MVFR HZ/FG OVERNIGHT...POSSIBLY DROPPING TO IFR AT TIMES AT MSL. && .PREV DISCUSSION...ISSUED 250 AM CDT MON JUN 14 2010... TODAY INTO TUESDAY WILL BE HOT AND MUGGY WITH TEMPS IN THE MID 90S FOR HIGHS AND DEWPOINTS REMAINING IN THE LOW TO MID 70S. TUESDAY MAY BE A BIT COOLER WITH MORE CLOUD COVER. DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY...HEAT INDICES WILL SPIKE OVER 100 DEGREES FOR BOTH DAYS. HEAT INDICES ARE STILL BELOW CRITERIA FOR A HEAT ADVISORY. HOWEVER....WILL KEEP SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT WITH EMPHASIS ON TAKING PRECAUTIONS IN THE HEAT. WITH THE DAYTIME HEATING...THERE COULD BE SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON ON BOTH DAYS WITH A SOMEWHAT GREATER CHANCE ON TUESDAY AS THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BEGINS TO MOVE WESTWARD. WITH THE LACK OF ANY APPRECIABLE LIFTING MECHANISM...ANY STORMS THAT DO FORM LOOK TO BE MORE GARDEN VARIETY. BY WEDNESDAY...THE ECMWF/GFS ARE DEPICTING A SHORTWAVE TROUGH IN VARYING DEGREES OF TIMING PROCEEDING ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES REGION AND DRAGGING A COOL FRONT SOUTHWARD OVER THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY INTO THE TN VALLEY. WITH THE WARM/MOIST AIR MASS IN PLACE...AND MODERATE INSTABILITY...EXPECTING GREATER CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF MICROBURSTS...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING THE MAIN THREATS. ECMWF DOES DEPICT THE COOL FRONT PASSING ALL THE WAY TO THE GULF COAST WHICH DOES NOT SEEM PLAUSIBLE WITH THE CURRENT REGIME. GFS ON THE OTHER HAND SHOWS THE FRONT SLOWING DOWN AND STALLING/DISSIPATING ALMOST ATOP THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY. GIVEN THESE CHOICES...HAVE INCREASED POPS SLIGHTLY AND LOWERED DAYTIME HIGHS SOMEWHAT DUE TO CLOUD COVER. THE RIDGE THAT POSITIONED ITSELF JUST WEST OF THE AREA LOOKS TO RE-ESTABLISH ITSELF FROM THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY WITH PERHAPS SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY BEFORE THE RIDGE PRETTY MUCH SHUTS DOWN ANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR THUNDERSTORMS. HAVE LEFT LOW END POPS FOR NOW. DAYTIME HIGHS WILL BE REACHING BACK INTO THE MID 90S WITH SOME LOWER DEWPOINTS DUE TO NW FLOW ALOFT. && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. TN...NONE. && UPDATE/AVIATION...BCC PREV DISCUSSION...SL.77
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 440 AM CDT MON JUN 14 2010 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-141830- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 440 AM CDT MON JUN 14 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... HOT CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AGAIN TODAY...WITH HEAT INDICES APPROACHING 105. ALONG WITH THE HEAT... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL APPROACH 103 DEGREES TUESDAY AFTERNOON...AS A HOT AND HUMID AIRMASS PERSISTS ACROSS THE REGION. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED EACH DAY THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. RSB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1134 AM CDT MON JUN 14 2010 ALZ006-008-009-141700- JACKSON-MADISON-MARSHALL- 1134 AM CDT MON JUN 14 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN JACKSON...EASTERN MADISON AND EXTREME NORTHERN MARSHALL COUNTIES UNTIL NOON CDT... AT 1133 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GURLEY...OR 10 MILES EAST OF HUNTSVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. WINDS UP TO 40 MPH AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... HIGHWAY 72. PAINT ROCK...GARTH. TRENTON. WOODVILLE...LIM ROCK. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. && LAT...LON 3471 8609 3450 8619 3462 8653 3479 8646 TIME...MOT...LOC 1633Z 290DEG 13KT 3468 8639 BCC
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
Heat index values climbed to 104 degrees in the afternoon in the Waco area on the 14th. Tragically, a four year old boy suffocated inside a vehicle in this community while playing hide and seek.
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, Franklin | 2010-06-14 | 4 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
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