Excessive Heat in Walker, Georgia
Excessive Heat September 5, 2015 · Walker, Georgia
What the National Weather Service wrote
A Chattanooga Tennessee television news station reported a heat related death in Chickamauga, Georgia in Walker County. An 11-month-old boy was left in a closed vehicle for approximately two and a half hours during the afternoon of Saturday, September 5th. Air temperatures were reported to be in the lower 90s and a Walker County Sheriff's Department official estimated that temperatures inside of the vehicle reached as high as 130-170 degrees.
The wider storm
A broad, persistent upper-level ridge of high pressure resulted in warm afternoon temperatures across northwest Georgia. An infant left inside of a vehicle for several hours died of hyperthermia in Walker County.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 603754. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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