High Wind in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

High Wind March 12, 2001 · Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Wind speed (unit not recorded)

Death

Injury

$14K

Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

Saturated ground conditions and winds of 25 to 40 miles an hour caused a large pine tree to fall down. The tree subsequently fell onto an automobile traveling on SR 216 near Brookwood crushing the car and killing a female passenger. The driver, a man, was seriously injured.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5236743. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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