Cold/Wind Chill in Southern Oconee, South Carolina

Cold/Wind Chill December 12, 2000 – December 13, 2000 · Southern Oconee, South Carolina

Death

The wider storm

Bitterly cold temperatures persisted over upstate South Carolina during mid-December, eventually reaching dangerous status. A 79-year old male Alzheimer's patient died of susoected hypothermia sometime during the night of the 12th-13th. The heat was off in the man's mobile home when the county coroner went to investigate. The extreme cold would persist until after Christmas.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5178415. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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