Tornado in Alabama, January 9, 2000

Name: Tornado in Alabama, January 9, 2000
Start: 2000-01-09T15:56
End: 2000-01-09T15:56
Location: Alabama

January 9, 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: 1
Property damage: $20,000
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

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Montgomery

When: January 9, 3:56 PM CST
Where: Montgomery County, 6 mi SSW of Montgomery
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.1 mi
Path width: 20 yd
Injuries: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $20,000
Reported by: BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates: 32.220, -86.208 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A weak tornado briefly touched down just south of exit 167 on I-65. One motorists, traveling northbound, had his car spun around and overturned. The car was totaled and the driver sustained minor injuries.

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, January 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: 5128185.