A 6-month-old boy died of pediatric vehicular heatstroke.
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 SLC wrote it up.
A 6-month-old boy died of pediatric vehicular heatstroke.
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 Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 13, 8:50 AM MST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT 950 AM MDT Tue Aug 13 2019 .SYNOPSIS...A dry westerly flow aloft will prevail across the region through the forecast period. && .DISCUSSION...With the dry flow aloft the forecast is pretty straight forward for today and Wednesday with current forecast likely on target. There is a thin layer of moisture at mid levels which could develop some build ups over the central and eastern mountains this afternoon but not expecting enough development for any showers to develop. Temperatures across the region expected to be very close to normal today and a couple of degrees above normal Wednesday. && .AVIATION...Light southerly winds at the SLC terminal will shift to the northwest by about 18Z and then back to the southeast at about 04Z this evening. VFR conditions will prevail. && .SLC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UT...None. WY...None. && PUBLIC...Struthwolf AVIATION...Struthwolf For more information from NOAA's National Weather Service visit... http://weather.gov/saltlakecity For frequently asked questions about the Area Forecast Discussion visit... http://weather.gov/saltlakecity/general/afd_faqs.php
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A 6-month-old boy died of pediatric vehicular heatstroke on August 13 in Santaquin.
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, Southern Wasatch Front | 2019-08-13 | 1 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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