Excessive heat continued for portions of the area through the month. Another fatality was caused by excessive heat in Hot Springs.
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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 continued for portions of the area through the month. Another fatality was caused by excessive heat in Hot Springs.
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 24, 12:41 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 141 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 2015 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE SHORT TERM...AS UPPER RIDGING REMAINS THE DOMINANT FEATURE. AT TIMES...THERE WILL BE ISOLATED AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING SHOWERS AND STORMS...BUT MOST OF THE AREA WILL REMAIN RAIN-FREE. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE ABOVE AVERAGE...WITH AREAS IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH LIKELY EXCEEDING THE CENTURY MARK AT SOME POINT. AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL REMAIN HIGH... AND THE ADVISORY WILL LIKELY NEED TO BE EXTENDED INTO THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN IN PLACE OVER THE REGION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EXTENDED TERM. THE MODELS ARE IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT ON THIS RIDGE RETROGRADING TO THE GREAT BASIN AREA BY THURSDAY...SETTING UP A NWLY FLOW ALOFT. AT THE SURFACE... THE WESTWARD SHIFT OF THE RIDGE WILL ALLOW A SFC COOL FRONT TO MIGRATE SOUTHWARD AND PUSH ACROSS THE STATE ON THURSDAY...BRINING AN INCREASE IN THE CHANCES FOR CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 76 94 77 94 / 10 20 10 20 CAMDEN AR 78 99 78 100 / 10 20 10 20 HARRISON AR 74 95 75 94 / 10 20 10 20 HOT SPRINGS AR 77 99 78 98 / 10 20 10 10 LITTLE ROCK AR 78 97 79 99 / 10 20 10 20 MONTICELLO AR 78 97 78 98 / 10 20 10 20 MOUNT IDA AR 75 98 75 97 / 10 10 10 10 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 75 95 76 95 / 10 20 10 20 NEWPORT AR 76 93 77 94 / 10 20 10 20 PINE BLUFF AR 77 97 78 97 / 10 20 10 20 RUSSELLVILLE AR 76 98 78 99 / 10 20 10 10 SEARCY AR 76 95 76 95 / 20 20 10 20 STUTTGART AR 77 95 77 96 / 20 20 10 20 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT SATURDAY FOR ARKANSAS-BAXTER- BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND-CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA- DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING-INDEPENDENCE-IZARD- JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE-MONROE-MONTGOMERY- OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE-PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SHARP- STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE-WOODRUFF-YELL. && SHORT TERM...57 / LONG TERM...53
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT FRI JUL 24 2015 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-251000- 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- 500 AM CDT FRI JUL 24 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HEAT WILL BE THE HEADLINER IN THE COMING DAYS...INCLUDING TODAY. AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL RANGE FROM 100 TO 110 DEGREES IN MOST AREAS. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS EVENING WILL BE ISOLATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE WILL NOT BE MUCH CHANGE IN THE FORECAST THIS WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE STRENGTHENS OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. UNDER THE HIGH...TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOVE NORMAL WITH LITTLE TO NO RAIN. AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL CONTINUE TO RANGE FROM 100 TO 110 DEGREES. BY THURSDAY...IT APPEARS THAT HIGH PRESSURE WILL DRIFT TOWARD THE ROCKIES. THIS WILL ALLOW A COLD FRONT TO PUSH INTO ARKANSAS FROM THE NORTH...WITH BETTER CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION AND NOT SO MUCH HEAT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 46
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 excessive heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A young child was found deceased after being left inside a car during excessive heat on the afternoon of the 24th.
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, Garland | 2015-07-24 | 2 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
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