Heat in Burnet, Texas

Heat August 9, 2011 · Burnet, Texas

Death

What the National Weather Service wrote

The August 2011 heat wave continued on the 9th. A man died due to hyperthermia outside his home in Marble Falls. The high temperature at Horseshoe Bay reached 104 degrees with the heat index at 106. This was the tenth consecutive day that the temperature reached 100 degrees.

The wider storm

Persistent high pressure over South Central Texas led to record high temperatures during an August heat wave.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 339572. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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