Heat in Hillsborough, Florida

Heat September 12, 2010 · Hillsborough, Florida

Death

What the National Weather Service wrote

A 3-year-old girl was mistakenly left in a sport utility vehicle for around an hour and 45 minutes, and died in the heat, while three of the girl's cousins attended a church service on North 9th Street in Tampa. Temperatures during the time the girl was in the vehicle were in the upper 80s, with dew point temperatures around 75 degrees, making heat index values around 99 degrees.

The wider storm

A very warm and moist airmass in place across the area allowed for heat indices to reach 100 to 105 degrees and an afternoon seabreeze to develop each day. Scattered thunderstorms developed each afternoon along the boundary and a girl was injured by lightning in one storm.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 260164. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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