Strong and destructive tornadoes form most frequently in the United States, Bangladesh, and Eastern India, but they can occur almost anywhere under the right conditions.

Tornadoes also develop occasionally in southern Canada during the Northern Hemisphere's summer and somewhat regularly at other times of the year across Europe, Asia, and Australia.

In addition, the tornado rolled a 500-gallon butane tank, damaged or destroyed metal barns and sheds, and knocked down hundreds of trees.

Near the town of Kelso, the tornado completely destroyed a metal farm shop, and pieces of debris from the structure were found 6 miles away.

In the afternoon, an F1 tornado destroyed several mobile homes in Red Level, Alabama, killing two people and injuring another.

[14] On April 7, a rare F0 tornado touched down and caused $150,000 in damage in the Northeastern Fresno suburb of Clovis, California.

One supercell passed over northern St. Louis producing ten tornadoes, one of which (rated F1) destroyed a mobile home, killing one and injuring two.

With some hailstones up to baseball size, the swath is the largest continuous in areal coverage and longest in length and duration of very large hail known.

[17] The next stage of the outbreak was a swarm of tornadoes which formed on the night of the 10th into the pre-dawn hours of the 11th in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.

[4][18] A rare F1 tornado struck the three state junction area of California, Arizona, and Nevada, crossing the Colorado River and causing minimal damage.

Touching down just outside Hoisington, it tore a two-block-wide path through the north and west sides of town, completely destroying almost 200 homes and businesses and damaging another 230.

[13][21] The next day, another moderate outbreak occurred, mainly on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan as well as eastern Ohio, West Virginia, and Texas.

[4] A supercell thunderstorm produced an F2 tornado that touched down on the northeast side of Fort Wayne, Indiana, causing $6.5 million in damage to a shopping center, a retirement home, and several houses.

[13][24][25] An F2 tornado touched down in Podhale region in Poland, and damaged 144 buildings in Morawczyna and Bielanka, Nowy Targ County.

[4][13] June 2 saw an F2 tornado hit London, Kentucky, causing major damage to shopping centers, vehicles, and mobile homes, injuring ten people.

A minor outbreak produced 19 tornadoes in Minnesota and Wisconsin on June 11, which included a high risk that was issued by the Storm Prediction Center.

The most notable of these was a large F2 tornado which struck Benson, Minnesota, injuring seven people (one critically) and causing $10 million in damage.

[30] In an unrelated storm system, a man was killed in his living room by a tree blown down by an F0 tornado in Jacksonville, Florida.

[29] On June 12, the remnants of Tropical Storm Allison produced 10 tornadoes in South Carolina and Georgia, all weak and brief in duration.

Many irrigation systems were overturned, trees, power poles, and lines were snapped, and grain bins destroyed by the strong wind.

The first, rated F1, hit a golf course in the town of Washington, demolishing a storage building and a tennis court, and injuring one person.

A lone, half-mile wide F2 tornado caused $1.5 million in damage on a 30-mile path through North Dakota, but no injuries were reported.

[45] A large multiple-vortex F3 tornado caused considerable damage near Polk, Nebraska, and blew a farmhouse off its foundation into some nearby trees.

[46] In Oklahoma, a destructive F3 tornado ripped directly through the town of Cordell, where major damage occurred and 9 people were injured.

[48] Yet another F3 tornado passed near Mountain View, flattening a diesel shop, an unanchored home, a barn, a garage, and an old schoolhouse near the beginning of the path.

[50][51][52][53][54] The outbreak was caused by an extremely deep low pressure system that was detected as early as Saturday, October 20 moving in on the coast of California.

By the morning of October 24, the SPC was on its highest alert after issuing a high risk for severe weather for Indiana, middle Kentucky, eastern Illinois, southern Michigan, and western Ohio.

A few minutes later, the strongest of the outbreak, rated F3, touched down and did major damage to buildings in Crumstown, a town near South Bend.

The storms caused major damage to the Schoolcraft area of Kalamazoo County, where straight line winds in excess of 120 miles per hour were reported, causing a golf dome to blow away, ripping the roof off a house, ripping the front wall of a brick house off and twisting irrigation sprinkler systems.

Later in the evening the severe storm produced straight line winds through the campus of Michigan State University downing many trees and damaging buildings.