High Wind in Alabama, April 8, 2000

Name: High Wind in Alabama, April 8, 2000
Start: 2000-04-08T08:30
End: 2000-04-08T08:30
Location: Alabama

April 8, 2000 · NWS BMX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $5,000
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.

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Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Colbert

When: April 8, 8:30 AM CST
Where: Colbert forecast zone
Measured: 34 kt (39 mph)
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 34.700, -87.805 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Northwest wind gusting to 30 miles an hour caused dangerous waves on Pickwick Lake in extreme western Colbert County. One fishing boat sank with three occupants aboard. A 43 year old man drowned when he could not swim to shore. A Wind Advisory was in effect for northern Alabama.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
High Wind, Colbert	2000-04-03	43	Male	Boat	Direct

What these are

High Wind: Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Alabama in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings in Alabama, April 2000

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: 5139296.