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The deadliest tornado of the outbreak was a violent stovepipe tornado that carved a 49 mi (79 km) path of damage from Fredericksburg, Indiana to the Bedford, Kentucky area. Along its track, the tornado destroyed hundreds of homes and killed 11 people.
The first major tornado outbreak occurred on January 22–23, when a spring-like system moved across the southern Mississippi valley, producing at least two dozen confirmed tornadoes across Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama. As a whole, January was the third most active on record, behind 1999 and 2008.
5 mar 2012 · The Leap Day tornado outbreak (February 28 and 29, 2012) produced a confirmation of 36 tornadoes and killed 13 people across the Mid-West in the states of Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska.
2 mar 2012 · Today we remember the devastation that took place in our communities across Kentucky and southern Indiana on March 2, 2012 as 81 tornadoes tore across 11 states. Of those 81 tornadoes, 18 occurred in Kentucky, and 4 occurred in Indiana, including the Henryville, IN EF-4.
In-depth meteorological discussion of one of the more prolific early-season tornado outbreaks in recent years: the March 2, 2012, outbreak that included the ...
March 2, 2012 Tornado Outbreak. On the morning of March 2, 2012 low pressure was centered over southern Missouri with a warm front reaching east into the Ohio Valley. Showers and thunderstorms were scattered along the warm front, and produced hail to the size of nickels between 8am and 10:30am.
2 mar 2022 · On March 2nd, 2012, a significant severe weather outbreak occurred across much of the Southeast and into the Ohio River Valley. Impacts included wind, hail, and likely most memorable, tornadoes. Of these tornadoes, 4 were confirmed within the Eastern Kentucky counties that the NWS Jackson, KY serves. Two out of the 4 were long-track tornadoes, ...
