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Excessive HeatSumner, Kansas

July 15, 2011 · NOAA Storm Events record

Direct deaths
1
Direct injuries
0
Property damage
Area
Sumner

Event narrative (NOAA)

The searing heat claimed one life, when a 47 year old man was riding his bicycle in the triple digit heat and collapsed on the side of the road near Oxford, Kansas. He was later pronouced dead from a heat related cardivascular collapse.

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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.

Excessive Heat — Sumner, Kansas, July 15, 2011 | DisasterAtlasUSA