Excessive heat caused one fatality in the first part of July.
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 LZK wrote it up.
Excessive heat caused one fatality in the first part of July.
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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 10, 1:34 PM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 234 PM CDT FRI JUL 10 2015 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT UPPER LEVEL RIDGING TO THE SOUTHWEST WILL STRENGTHEN THROUGH THE PERIOD...WITH DRY WEATHER EXPECTED. SOUTH WINDS WILL KEEP PLENTY OF MOISTURE OVER THE REGION...AND WITH WARMING TEMPERATURES... AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL APPROACH OR EXCEED TRIPLE DIGITS IN AT LEAST SOUTHERN AND POSSIBLY CENTRAL ARKANSAS THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE ANCHORED OVER THE SOUTH CENTRAL UNITED STATES NEXT WEEK...WITH ZONAL UPPER FLOW SUPPRESSED WELL TO THE NORTH OF ARKANSAS. AS A RESULT...TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN WARM AND PRECIP CHANCES LOW. KEPT RAIN CHANCES SILENT IN THE FORECAST BUT THERE ARE SOME INDICATIONS THAT MAYBE SOME STRAY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MAY BE PRESENT ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN AND NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...BUT THE QPF SIGNAL PRESENT IN THE MODELS IS PRETTY MODEST SO SUSPECT ANY STORMS WILL BE WIDELY SCATTERED SO WILL KEEP THE FORECAST DRY FOR THE TIME BEING. TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S MOST PLACES EACH AFTERNOON. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 74 94 75 94 / 0 10 0 0 CAMDEN AR 73 95 72 96 / 0 10 0 0 HARRISON AR 71 91 72 91 / 10 10 0 0 HOT SPRINGS AR 74 94 74 94 / 0 10 0 0 LITTLE ROCK AR 75 95 76 96 / 0 10 0 0 MONTICELLO AR 74 95 75 97 / 0 10 0 0 MOUNT IDA AR 74 93 74 93 / 0 10 0 0 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 71 93 72 92 / 10 10 0 0 NEWPORT AR 75 96 76 96 / 0 10 0 0 PINE BLUFF AR 74 95 74 96 / 0 10 0 0 RUSSELLVILLE AR 74 95 74 95 / 0 10 0 0 SEARCY AR 73 94 74 95 / 0 10 0 0 STUTTGART AR 75 95 75 97 / 0 10 0 0 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...57 / LONG TERM...64
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 400 AM FRI JUL 10 2015 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-111000- BOONE-MARION-BAXTER-FULTON-SHARP-NEWTON-SEARCY-STONE-IZARD- INDEPENDENCE-JOHNSON-POPE-VAN BUREN-CLEBURNE-JACKSON-LOGAN-CONWAY- FAULKNER-WHITE-WOODRUFF-SCOTT-YELL-PERRY-POLK-MONTGOMERY-GARLAND- SALINE-PULASKI-LONOKE-PRAIRIE-MONROE-PIKE-CLARK-HOT SPRING-GRANT- JEFFERSON-ARKANSAS-DALLAS-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-DESHA-OUACHITA-CALHOUN- BRADLEY-DREW- 400 AM CDT FRI JUL 10 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 56
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 excessive heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A 73 year old woman died as a result of excessive heat during the afternoon hours of the 10th.
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, Lonoke | 2015-07-10 | 73 | Female | Permanent Home | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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