Hot September temperatures were in place when a child was accidentally left in an automobile. Temperatures were above normal but below criteria for heat advisories.
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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 EWX wrote it up.
Hot September temperatures were in place when a child was accidentally left in an automobile. Temperatures were above normal but below criteria for heat advisories.
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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 21, 1:46 PM CST, 14 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX 246 PM CDT Sat Sep 21 2019 .SHORT TERM (Tonight through Sunday)... Isolated showers are ongoing across portions of the Coastal Plains and even extending up into the San Antonio area where a plume of elevated moisture exists. A few areas have picked up some wetting rains, with Stinson airport on the southeast side of San Antonio receiving a half inch of rain. Temperatures this afternoon are primarily in the 90s, with a few cooler locations across the Hill Country and where rain cooled air and increased cloud cover has kept temperatures tempered. Shower activity should come to an end this evening with the loss of heating. Expect partly to mostly cloudy skies tonight with overnight lows in the mid 70s for most locations. A few streamer showers are possible toward morning. Another unseasonably warm day is expected on Sunday, with highs reaching the mid to upper 90s for most locations. There will be another slight chance for some showers, but the favored area will be pushed a little bit further east to the Coastal Plains. && .LONG TERM (Monday through Saturday)... The mid to upper level high across the southeastern US will generally stay in place through Monday before shifting further southeast to the eastern Gulf of Mexico near Florida toward mid week. An upper level trough is expected to come ashore in the Pacific Northwest by Sunday evening, heading southeast and becoming a well defined closed mid level low by Tuesday morning near the California/Arizona/Mexico border. It is expected to generally hang out in that area before becoming an open wave trough and existing to the northeast. For us here across South Central Texas, not a whole heck of a lot is expected to change, with south/southeasterly surface flow and generally weak mid to upper level winds persisting. Slight chance PoPs, high temperatures in the mid 90s, and lows in the mid 70s are expected to continue through the period. The Climate Prediction Center's 6 to 10 and 8 to 14 day outlooks continue to show high probabilities for warmer than normal temperatures continuing, and long term models continue to show no cold fronts on the horizon. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Austin Camp Mabry 74 98 75 97 74 / - 10 0 10 10 Austin Bergstrom Intl Airport 72 96 72 95 72 / - 10 0 10 10 New Braunfels Muni Airport 72 97 72 96 72 / 10 20 0 10 10 Burnet Muni Airport 72 94 71 94 71 / - 10 0 10 10 Del Rio Intl Airport 76 98 75 98 76 / - - 0 - 10 Georgetown Muni Airport 72 96 72 96 72 / - 10 0 10 10 Hondo Muni Airport 74 99 73 100 73 / 10 10 - 10 10 San Marcos Muni Airport 72 97 72 96 72 / 10 20 0 10 10 La Grange - Fayette Regional 73 96 74 96 72 / - 20 0 20 - San Antonio Intl Airport 75 97 75 96 75 / 10 20 - 10 10 Stinson Muni Airport 75 99 75 99 75 / 10 20 - 10 10 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && Aviation...Platt Short-Term/Long-Term...BMW Public Service/Data Collection...EWilliams
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX 350 AM CDT Sat Sep 21 2019 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-220900- Llano-Burnet-Williamson-Val Verde-Edwards-Real-Kerr-Bandera- Gillespie-Kendall-Blanco-Hays-Travis-Bastrop-Lee-Kinney-Uvalde- Medina-Bexar-Comal-Guadalupe-Caldwell-Fayette-Maverick-Zavala- Frio-Atascosa-Wilson-Karnes-Gonzales-De Witt-Lavaca-Dimmit- 350 AM CDT Sat Sep 21 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for South-Central Texas.. .DAY ONE...Today And Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A three year old boy in San Antonio Texas was accidentally left in a car after the family returned from a T-Ball game in the early afternoon. Air temperatures outside at the time where in the lower 90s. The boy's body was discovered at 5 PM and was later pronounced dead.
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, Bexar | 2019-09-21 | 3 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Indirect |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 852617.