Tornado in Mississippi, March 3, 2000

Name: Tornado in Mississippi, March 3, 2000
Start: 2000-03-03T18:00
End: 2000-03-03T18:15
Location: Mississippi

March 3, 2000 · NWS MOB · 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: $12,000
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 Mobile radar (KMOB), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:01 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Greene

When: March 3, 6:00 PM CST to 6:15 PM CST
Where: Greene County, 4 mi SE of Avera
Rating: F0
Path length: 6 mi
Path width: 30 yd
Property damage: $12,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 31.267, -88.700

An F0 tornado, about thirty yards wide, moved along at near tree top level for about six miles. The tornado first touched down near State Highway 63 southeast of Avera where a mobile home that was tied down was shifted off its blocks. A pump house was destroyed and the tops of a couple of trees were snapped at the same location. The torando then moved east, passing near Jonathan, then lifting back into the clouds about two miles east of Jonathan. Most of the damage along this track was to trees. The tornado first touched down around 600 pm. Large hail also occurred.

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, 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: 5137134.