Tornado, Dallas
- When
- March 18, 6:05 PM CST to 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Dallas County, Orrville to 10 mi SSE of Orrville
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 70 yd
- Property damage
- $120,000
- Crop damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 32.150, -87.250
Tornado in Alabama, March 18, 1996
A small tornado touched down along the Alabama River just inside Dallas County or about 10 miles south of Orrville. The tornado damaged several houses and mobile homes and at least one farm structure.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $120,000
- Crop damage
- $10,000
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS BMX wrote it up.
A small tornado touched down along the Alabama River just inside Dallas County or about 10 miles south of Orrville. The tornado damaged several houses and mobile homes and at least one farm structure. Numerous trees were snapped off and uprooted. The tornado was on the ground for about 4 miles with a width of about 70 yards. Tornado intensity was judged to be an F1.
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 122 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:05 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
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The same day elsewhere
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More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5546979.