Tornado in Alabama, December 16, 2000

Name: Tornado in Alabama, December 16, 2000
Start: 2000-12-16T13:29
End: 2000-12-16T13:31
Location: Alabama

December 16, 2000 · NWS BMX · 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: $4,000
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 Birmingham radar (KBMX), 80 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:28 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Perry

When: December 16, 1:29 PM CST to 1:31 PM CST
Where: Perry County, 2 mi NW of Suttle
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.7 mi
Path width: 30 yd
Property damage: $4,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 32.550, -87.200

A weak tornado briefly touched down just north of the city of Suttle. The tornado was briefly on the ground as it crossed SR 14 between Suttle and Radford, in rural southeast Perry County. Several trees were snapped off or blown over along the short path. This tornado occurred at the apex of a bowing line of thunderstorms. Beginning: 32 33.208/87 11.931 Ending: 32 33.452/87 10.977

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 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Alabama, 2000 Warnings in Alabama, December 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: 5159768.