Tornado in Mississippi, January 3, 2000

Name: Tornado in Mississippi, January 3, 2000
Start: 2000-01-03T17:29
End: 2000-01-03T17:33
Location: Mississippi

January 3, 2000 · NWS JAN · 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: $125,000
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 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Jasper

When: January 3, 5:29 PM CST to 5:33 PM CST
Where: Jasper County, 3 mi SW of Garlandville
Rating: F2
Path length: 4 mi
Path width: 300 yd
Property damage: $125,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 32.019, -89.119 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

This strong tornado nearly destroyed a cinder-block convenience store. One house received major damage as its roof was thrown about fifty yards away. A mobile home was blown off of its foundation and thrown about fifty yards into adjacent woods where it was left in total destruction. Several barns and sheds were either destroyed or received major damage. Several hundred trees were either blown down or snapped off. There were no injuries or fatalities. The tornado left north central Jasper County and moved into south central Newton County.

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 Mississippi in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Mississippi, 2000 Warnings in Mississippi, 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: 5131040.