Tornado in Tennessee, December 16, 2000

Name: Tornado in Tennessee, December 16, 2000
Start: 2000-12-16T13:08
End: 2000-12-16T13:10
Location: Tennessee

December 16, 2000 · NWS OHX · 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: $50,000
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 Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:09 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Lincoln

When: December 16, 1:08 PM CST to 1:10 PM CST
Where: Lincoln County, Cash Pt
Rating: F1
Path length: 1.5 mi
Path width: 50 yd
Property damage: $50,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 35.017, -86.817

NWS Storm Survey indicated touchdown of the tornado was near Cash Point where a small mobile home was extensively damaged. The roof of the mobile home was peeled off. Other roof damage was observed within 1/4 of a mile from the mobile home. A few trees were also uprooted near the mobile home. The tornado moved to the northeast and did some damage to the crowns of trees. At one mile from touchdown, a small outbuilding was destroyed. The tornado skipped over a school, but it tore off some shingles off a new house. About a tenth of a mile further from the school, the tornado picked up the roof of a cinder block garage and turned it approximately 90 degrees before setting it back down.

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 Tennessee in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Tennessee, 2000 Warnings in Tennessee, December 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: 5165995.