A 5 month old baby died of hyperthermia in Donelson after being left inside a vehicle for 7 to 8 hours on August 7. The high temperature reached 93 degrees at the nearby Nashville International Airport.
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A 5 month old baby died of hyperthermia in Donelson after being left inside a vehicle for 7 to 8 hours on August 7. The high temperature reached 93 degrees at the nearby Nashville International Airport.
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 Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 7, 5:44 AM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 644 AM CDT TUE AUG 7 2012 .UPDATE...AVIATION. && .AVIATION...12Z TAFS. DECENT AMOUNT OF H8 MOISTURE WITH SCT STRATO-CU QUICK TO DEVELOP THIS MORNING (BY 15Z). DRY AIR HIGHER UP WITH SCT DECK AROUND 5KFT KCKV/KCSV THIS AFTN. TOPO/INSTAB ENOF TO DEVELOP SOME STORMS HIGHER TERRAIN WITH VCTS SCT040CB KCSV. TNGT...IFR FOG PROBABLE KCSV W/VFR COND EXPECTED AT KBNA/KCKV. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 341 AM CDT TUE AUG 7 2012/ DISCUSSION...BNA SOUNDING SHOWS A MODICUM OF MOISTURE BELOW 700 MB... BUT VERY DRY ABOVE THAT. BELIEVE ANY TSTM ACTIVITY WILL BE LIMITED TO MAINLY PLATEAU COUNTIES TODAY. LITTLE...IF ANY...ACTIVITY EXPECTED TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. MOISTURE WITH THE NEXT SYSTEM BEGINS TO PUSH INTO THE AREA LATE WED NGT... WITH ISOLATED TSTMS EXPECTED FOR A FEW NWRN COUNTIES. NEXT FRONT APPROACHES ON THU/THU NGT WITH SCATTERED TSTMS EXPECTED. FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA EARLY FRI AM WITH SIGNIFICANT DRY AIR BEHIND THE FRONT. RAIN CHANCE BEGIN TO DIMINISH FRI EVE WITH RAIN CHANCES LIMITED TO THE ERN THIRD. DRIER AND COOLER AIR SETTLES OVER THE REGION ON SAT WITH HIGHS IN THE MID 80S. GUIDANCE WAS IN THE LOWER 80S...BUT WITH NEARLY FULL SUN IN AUGUST...THAT WOULD BE AN SIGNIFICANT ANOMALY. SLGT CHC POPS FOR THE ERN SECTION ON MON/MON NGT AS A WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH PASSES BY THE AREA AND INDUCES A BIT OF UVV. LATEST GRAPHICS FROM CPC STILL SHOW BELOW NORMAL PRECIP BUT I NOTICE THAT THE 8-14 DAY TEMP ANOMALY CHART HAS SHIFTED TO ABOVE NORMAL. ONE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN THE LONG TERM IS THAT THE ECM SHIFTS THE UPPER RIDGE THAT IS CURRENTLY OVER THE ROCKIES EWD INTO THE MID MS VALLEY WHILE THE GFS KEEPS THE AREA IN NWLY FLOW WITH THE RIDGE OVER THE ROCKIES AND WRN PLAINS. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 04
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 528 AM CDT TUE AUG 7 2012 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-081030- STEWART-MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-SUMNER-MACON-CLAY-PICKETT-BENTON- HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-DICKSON-CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON-WILSON-TROUSDALE- SMITH-JACKSON-PUTNAM-OVERTON-FENTRESS-PERRY-HICKMAN-LEWIS- WILLIAMSON-MAURY-MARSHALL-RUTHERFORD-CANNON-DE KALB-WHITE- CUMBERLAND-BEDFORD-COFFEE-WARREN-GRUNDY-VAN BUREN-WAYNE-LAWRENCE- GILES- 528 AM CDT TUE AUG 7 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 04
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A 5 month old baby died of hyperthermia in Donelson after being left inside a vehicle for 7 to 8 hours on August 7. The high temperature reached 93 degrees at the nearby Nashville International Airport.
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, Davidson | 2012-08-07 | 0 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
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