Tornado in Alabama, March 10, 2000

Name: Tornado in Alabama, March 10, 2000
Start: 2000-03-10T20:56
End: 2000-03-10T21:02
Location: Alabama

March 10, 2000 · NWS BMX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $40,000
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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1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Perry

When: March 10, 8:56 PM CST to 9:02 PM CST
Where: Perry County, 6 mi W of Heiberger
Rating: F0
Path length: 7 mi
Path width: 100 yd
Property damage: $40,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 32.767, -87.333

A weak tornado moved through mostly rural parts of northern Perry County. Numerous trees were blown down or snapped off along the 7 mile path of the tornado. At the Heiberger Grocery Store, one large portable building used for voting was totally destroyed, a glass gas sign was blown out by the high winds, windows were broken, one wall of a building was moved, and the store sustained minor roof damage. Several homes in Heiberger also had minor roof damage. One mobile home had a tree fall on it. Beginning: 32 45.800/87 23.260 Ending: 32 47.050/87 15.771

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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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: 5137794.