Tornado in Alabama, April 15, 1999

Name: Tornado in Alabama, April 15, 1999
Start: 1999-04-15T01:00
End: 1999-04-15T01:10
Location: Alabama

April 15, 1999 · NWS MOB · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $100,000
Crop damage: None recorded
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.

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 146 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:01 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Clarke

When: April 15, 1:00 AM CST to 1:10 AM CST
Where: Clarke County, Thomasville
Rating: F0
Path length: 3 mi
Path width: 150 yd
Property damage: $100,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 31.920, -87.730

A F0 tornado touched down along County Road 48 at Bashi Hwy or about 3 miles northwest of Thomasville. About 100 trees were blown down. Some trees were snapped off about 40 feet in the air; the branches below were completely stripped off. The tornado then skipped northeast, briefly touching down along U.S. Highway 43 or 3 miles north of Thomasville. Again, trees were blown down along with power lines and telephone wires. An automobile was damaged when it hit a tree across a road. No structural damage to any homes or injuries were reported. The tornado lifted back into the cloud just northeast of U.S. Highway 43. Most of the fallen trees were facing to the northeast.

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

Every storm in Alabama in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Alabama, 1999 Warnings in Alabama, April 1999

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: 5691111.