Whilst it was on land, the tornado caused £5-10 million in damage as it went through the town of Selsey in West Sussex.
A rare derecho then affected parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, producing widespread damaging winds and 22 tornadoes.
The previous record for the highest tornado death toll in Florida history was 17 on March 31, 1962.
[citation needed] A deadly tornado outbreak struck portions of the Southeastern United States on March 20.
Particularly hard hit was Gainesville, Georgia, where at least 12 people were killed in an early morning F3 tornado.
The entire outbreak killed 14 people and produced 12 tornadoes across three states with the town of Stoneville, North Carolina also being hard hit by the storms.
The F5 tornado produced catastrophic damage in Oak Grove, McDonald Chapel, and the small community of Edgewater.
A high-end F2 tornado struck Dunwoody, Georgia, a northern suburb of metro Atlanta late on April 8, striking parts of DeKalb and Gwinnett Counties.
Nashville became the first major city in nearly 20 years to have an F2+ tornado make a direct hit in the downtown area.
Two rare, anticyclonic tornadoes struck Los Altos and Sunnyvale in Santa Clara County, California (Silicon Valley).
It affected a large portion of the northern half of the United States and Southern Ontario from Southeastern Montana east-southeastward to the Atlantic Ocean.
The most significant tornado outbreak in recent history over the east-central United States occurred on June 2.
This severe weather event spawned a total of 50 tornadoes from New York to South Carolina and caused an estimated $42 million in damage, 80 injuries and two fatalities.
For portions of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, it was the second historic severe weather outbreak in three days, as it immediately followed the Late-May 1998 tornado outbreak and derecho on May 30–31, which spawned 41 tornadoes over New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Vermont, caused an estimated $83 million in damage, 109 injuries and one fatality.
[13] A very large F2 tornado occurred in the open countryside near Columbus, Nebraska, slowly churning through fields and destroying a few farmsteads.
Hurricane Georges triggered a six-day tornado outbreak as it moved through Southeastern United States.
The tornado then tracked northeast, causing damage to an abandoned house and destroying a barn and garage.
Entering Alfalfa County, the tornado then destroyed an office building and a gas plant and blew the roof off a nearby modular home.
An F0 tornado was spotted by a state trooper and was on the ground for less than one minute near SH-11 west of Medford and caused no known damage.