Excessive Heat — Southern Hidalgo County, Texas
June 23, 2019 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
A New York Times article described potential heat-related deaths, as provided by United States Border Patrol (USBP), during the afternoon of June 23, 2019, in the brush inside the levee along the Rio Grande south of McAllen. One woman (age unknown but assumed to be in her 20s) and three children (two infants and a toddler) were pronounced dead when found that evening. Between 3 and 4 PM CDT, the heat index at McAllen/Miller Airport, less than 10 miles north of the location of the bodies and the most relevant proxy location, reported more than an hour of heat index of 118 degrees. Excessive heat is defined as values 116 or higher in the region.
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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.