Tornado, Vernon
- When
- March 10, 4:53 PM CST to 4:55 PM CST
- Where
- Vernon County, 10 mi W of Ft Polk
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 31.050, -93.367
Tornado in Louisiana, March 10, 2000
Fort Polk meteorologists observed a small tornado from the Tiger Landing Zone. It remained in a heavily wooded area and did no more damage than blowing down a few trees.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS LCH wrote it up.
Fort Polk meteorologists observed a small tornado from the Tiger Landing Zone. It remained in a heavily wooded area and did no more damage than blowing down a few trees.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, March 10, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 10, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 10, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 10, 2000
- Flash Flood in Alabama, March 10 to 11, 2000
- Tornado in Alabama, March 10, 2000
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, March 10, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 10, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, March 10, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Kansas, March 10 to 11, 2000
- Hail in Texas, March 10, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 10, 2000
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Louisiana, 2000Warnings in Louisiana, March 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: 5137214.