Tornado counts are considered preliminary until final publication in the database of the National Centers for Environmental Information.
[2] These tornadoes are commonly focused across the Southern United States due to their proximity to the unstable air mass and warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, as well as California in association with winter storms in those three months.
Many of those tornadoes occurred much further north than is typical for the month, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions, including Wisconsin, which experienced tornadoes in February for the first time since modern record began in 1950.
The bulk of the tornadoes that occurred in March came during a destructive outbreak in the middle of the month.
Additionally, for the first time since 2018, no violent tornadoes occurred in the United States in March.