High Wind, Tazewell
- When
- March 19, 11:00 PM EST to March 20, 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Tazewell forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 37.125, -81.561 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Virginia, March 19 to 20, 2000
High winds in Tazewell County during the late night of the 19th and early morning of the 20th, downed trees, power lines, and snapped a power pole. There were many reports of minor property damage countywide.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- $10,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS RNK wrote it up.
High winds in Tazewell County during the late night of the 19th and early morning of the 20th, downed trees, power lines, and snapped a power pole. There were many reports of minor property damage countywide.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Wind in California, March 19 to 20, 2000
- High Wind in Tennessee, March 19 to 20, 2000
- Flash Flood in Alabama, March 19, 2000
- Tornado in Alabama, March 19, 2000
- High Wind in California, March 19 to 20, 2000
- Tornado in Alabama, March 19, 2000
- High Wind in North Carolina, March 19 to 20, 2000
- Flash Flood in Alabama, March 19, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, March 19, 2000
- Flash Flood in Alabama, March 19, 2000
- Flash Flooding in Tennessee, March 19, 2000
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, March 19 to 20, 2000
More
Every storm in Virginia in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, 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: 5136016.