Heat in South Carolina, May 8, 2014

Name: Heat in South Carolina, May 8, 2014
Start: 2014-05-08T13:00
End: 2014-05-08T13:00
Location: South Carolina

May 8, 2014 · NWS ILM · 1 event in 1 county or zone

An infant was left unattended in a car and died due to hyperthermia.

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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS ILM wrote it up.

An infant was left unattended in a car and died due to hyperthermia.

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Event by event

1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.

Heat, Darlington

When: May 8, 1:00 PM EST
Where: Darlington forecast zone
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by: Newspaper
Coordinates: 34.332, -79.958 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A man accidently left his sleeping 13 month old daughter in the back seat of his car, parked on 5th street near Carolina Printing, where the father works. The baby was left unattended for three hours. The autopsy determined the little girl died from hyperthermia due to the extreme heat. The high temperature that day was in the low to mid 90s.

The people who died

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, Darlington	2014-05-08	1	Female	Vehicle/Towed Trailer	Direct

What these are

Heat: Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in South Carolina in 2014 Every state in 2014 This day in weather history Warnings in South Carolina, May 2014

Sources

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: 517769.