Tornadoes of 2010

A lesser number occur outside the U.S., most notably in parts of neighboring southern Canada during the Northern Hemisphere's summer season, but are also known in South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

[7] A third tornado was reported by the public in Orange County, with cars overturned on the Pacific Coast Highway and roof damage in the area.

[15] As the cyclone tracked east, additional storms developed on the afternoon of January 21 in central Tennessee and northern Alabama, with two tornadoes reported in these areas.

A tornado touched down near the town of Hammon in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, on the early evening of March 8 and was reported by spotters around 5:29 pm CST.

The synoptic pattern that led to the convection, consisted of mid and upper level troughing over much of the eastern United States, and an associated surface cold front advancing eastward along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast.

[30] With the instability and shear ahead of the cold front, a line of showers and thunderstorms developed, and at 4:50 pm produced an EF1 tornado with winds of 80 to 90 miles an hour.

The damage spanned a 2-mile long and up to 50 yard wide path across Morgan County, Georgia, from High Shoals Road to the Apalachee River.

[34] Four "particularly dangerous situation" tornado watches were issued that day for areas of Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama.

[39] Significant damage to an industrial plant with injuries, trapped people and destroyed homes were reported in Madison Parish, Louisiana, near the Louisiana-Mississippi state line.

[41] The National Weather Service also confirmed two tornado touchdowns in the St. Louis, Missouri, area on April 24, 2010, both were rated as EF0 with the strongest winds recorded at 85 mph.

Activity began in the afternoon on the warm front, where a destructive tornado touched down in northeastern Mississippi with severe damage near Ripley.

At least 51[49] people were killed after a tornado, hail storms, gale-force winds and torrential rains causing mudslides hit southern China, damaging thousands of homes and destroying crops.

[63] The most intense supercell produced a long-lived wedge tornado in and around Bowdle, South Dakota, where numerous houses and farm buildings were destroyed and cars were thrown into the air.

Related to the storm system mentioned above that spawned tornadoes in Midland, but a separate group of cells, was a strong line of thunderstorms that quickly fired up during the heat of the afternoon in northern Missouri and southern Iowa.

The strongest was a violent EF4 tornado touched that flattened several houses and farm buildings as it remained in the rural countryside near Sibley, and Little Rock, Iowa.

An F3 tornado hit the Kawacatoose First Nations reserve 120 km (75 mi) north of Regina, Saskatchewan, in Canada at approximately 5 pm CDT, destroying at least 13 houses.

[99] A hot, extremely humid and highly unstable air mass, with dewpoints exceeding 80 °F (27 °C) in many areas, combined with a cold front across portions of the Upper Midwest.

[100] As Tropical Storm Conson trekked through the Philippines, its outer bands spawned a tornado in Koronadal City, destroying 13 homes and flattening agricultural land.

These tornadoes were spawned by a large, positively-tilted trough located in Québec with dew points reaching into the mid-70s in southeast North Dakota and western Minnesota.

The southeast corner of one of the farmsteads sustained a direct hit at low-end EF4 intensity, completely sweeping away seven well-built farm buildings and severely damaging a home.

[120] A rare violent tornado in Kasaï-Occidental and Kasaï-Oriental provinces along the Kasaï river ravaged 4 villages with strong winds, hail, and heavy rain.

However, the tornadoes across south central Kansas were also accompanied by hail up to 7.75 inches (19.7 cm) in diameter (larger than grapefruit size), which caused widespread damage.

[125] Two tornadoes touched down in New York City and brought torrential downpours and heavy wind gusts as they struck parts of Queens and Brooklyn.

[126] In addition, one person was confirmed dead in Belleville, Wood County, West Virginia, by an EF3 tornado where many structures where heavily damaged or destroyed, including camping trailers.

On October 5, a cluster of severe thunderstorms struck Maricopa County, Arizona, particularly the Phoenix metropolitan area, producing very large, destructive hail up to 3 inches (7.6 cm) in diameter across the region.

As a result, a round of supercells formed and produced a tornado outbreak that struck northern Arizona and southern Utah, an extremely rare occurrence for an area west of the Rocky Mountains.

[129] A tornado touched down in Formosa Province, Argentina and struck the town of Pozo del Tigre, killing six people and injuring 116.

[130][131] A developing intense low pressure system resulted in an unstable air mass over parts of the Southern United States on October 24.

[144] An EF-1 tornado touched down in El Dorado County, California, on November 22 damaging a commercial structure, power lines, and trees.

[146][147] Two non-tornadic fatalities occurred as a result of the severe weather: in both cases, a tree fell on a vehicle, with one instance being in West Milford, New Jersey and the other in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

Damage from a tornado in central Mississippi
Record hailstone near Vivian, South Dakota
Low-end EF4 damage southwest of Doran, Minnesota
Radar loop of the Rice, Texas thunderstorm. The thunderstorm which produced the Rice, Texas tornado is the first thunderstorm in the loop.
Low-end EF4 damage west of Atlanta, Louisiana