One of these early day storms produced a damaging EF3 tornado that impacted Harvest, Alabama. The outbreak began fairly early in the morning, with an initial round of storms and tornadoes associated with the incoming warm front attached to a rapidly deepening low-pressure area over the central Great Lakes. Multiple PDS tornado watches were issued shortly thereafter. The Storm Prediction Center mentioned the potential for significant tornadoes. On the morning of March 2, it was upgraded and a high risk of severe weather was issued for Middle Tennessee and central Kentucky, later extended into Central and Southern Indiana and southern Ohio. While the first three weeks of the month were unusually quiet, the pattern changed abruptly with a major tornado outbreak, which struck the region less than 72 hours prior to this storm, killing 15 people, including 8 in Harrisburg, Illinois alone, the result of an EF4 tornado.Ī moderate risk of severe weather was issued for March 2 a day in advance for a large area from near Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Dayton, Ohio as an intense storm system tracked across the region in a very high shear environment. Storm reports for March 2 (top) and March 3 (bottom)įebruary 2012 was more active than normal in terms of the number of tornadoes, with a total of 50 confirmed.

since official records began in 1950 only the 1966 Candlestick Park tornado had a higher death toll for a tornadic system in early March. The outbreak was the second deadliest in early March for the U.S. Tornado-related deaths also occurred in Alabama, Indiana, and Ohio.

The storms resulted in 41 tornado-related fatalities, 22 of which occurred in Kentucky.

On March 2 and 3, 2012, a deadly tornado outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United States into the Ohio Valley region. Part of the tornado outbreaks of 20–12 North American winter Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Dixie Alley Tornadic – 175 mph (282 km/h) ( Henryville, Indiana, Crittenden, Kentucky EF4 on March 2)Ĥ.25 in (10.8 cm) in diameter in two locations, on March 2 GOES 13 image of the storm system on March 2

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