A large area of high pressure brought record-breaking temperatures to much of the Desert Southwest. Several people died from the heat, many more were injured, and some infrastructure was damaged.
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 VEF wrote it up.
A large area of high pressure brought record-breaking temperatures to much of the Desert Southwest. Several people died from the heat, many more were injured, and some infrastructure was damaged.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 excessive heat. Local standard time, as filed.
Excessive Heat Warning criteria were reached each day from June 28th through 30th, and continued into July. Two people were overcome by heat in Death Valley on the 28th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in California, June 2013
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 457703.