Tornadoes in Texas, April 23, 2000

Name: Tornadoes in Texas, April 23, 2000
Start: 2000-04-23T14:53
End: 2000-04-23T15:28
Location: Texas

April 23, 2000 · NWS SHV · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $173,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 Shreveport radar (KSHV), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:51 UTC.

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Event by event

2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Titus

When: April 23, 2:53 PM CST to 3:10 PM CST
Where: Titus County, 3 mi E of Mt Pleasant
Rating: F2
Path length: 7 mi
Path width: 150 yd
Property damage: $145,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 33.167, -94.933

This tornado developed in a high precipitation supercell as it moved eastward across the county. Small to moderate pine and oak trees were snapped and broken. A mobile home dealership in Cookville, TX was moderately damaged and several homes suffered shingle loss. This tornado continued into Morris County, TX. The F2 rating is from the Morris County, TX segment of this tornado.

Tornado, Morris

When: April 23, 3:10 PM CST to 3:28 PM CST
Where: Morris County, 5 mi NW of Omaha
Rating: F2
Path length: 9.8 mi
Path width: 150 yd
Property damage: $28,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 33.233, -94.800

This tornado developed in a high precipitation supercell as it moved eastward across the county. Numerous large pine and oak trees were snapped and broken. Several barns were damaged but the tornado stayed mostly across rural farmland and forests. This tornado is a continuation of the Titus County, TX tornado.

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 Texas in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Texas, 2000 Warnings in Texas, 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: 5139187, 5139188.