Tornado, Claiborne
- When
- April 20, 9:35 PM EST
- Where
- Claiborne County, 1 mi SW of Manring
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Crop damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 36.533, -83.817
Tornado in Tennessee, April 20, 2000
A brief tornado touched down at the peak of a hill removing 40 to 50 trees. The trees clearly showed the rotation of the tornado in their damage.
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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- $10,000
- 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 MRX wrote it up.
A brief tornado touched down at the peak of a hill removing 40 to 50 trees. The trees clearly showed the rotation of the tornado in their damage. The path was approximately 150 yards long and 20 yards wide and was an f-0 in intensity.
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:34 UTC.
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
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- Tornado in Tennessee, April 20, 2000
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, April 20, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 20, 2000
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Ohio, April 20, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, April 20, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 20, 2000
- Tornado in Tennessee, April 20, 2000
- Flooding and Hail in Michigan, April 20, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 20, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, April 20, 2000
- Tornado in Missouri, April 20, 2000
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Tennessee, 2000Warnings in Tennessee, April 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: 5139615.