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, Argentina and Australia.
On January 21, an EF1 tornado struck the town of Huntington, Arkansas, where trees were downed, a metal structure was destroyed, and a mobile home was damaged along with multiple chicken houses.
The De Kalb tornado tore roofs off of homes, snapped and twisted numerous trees, damaged a church, and completely destroyed many large chicken houses along its path.
However, a large quasi-linear convective system developed, and numerous semi-discrete supercell structures and embedded mesovortices within the larger line of severe storms produced a moderate outbreak of tornadoes.
[15] A high-end EF2 tornado near Adairville, Kentucky destroyed several homes and barns and killed an elderly woman, ending a record 283-day streak without any tornado-related deaths.
Multiple strong tornadoes touched down that evening, including an EF2 that uprooted hundreds of trees and ripped roofs off of homes near Ardmore, Alabama.
[29] Later that night and into the early morning hours of April 14, the storms merged into a large squall line and pushed eastward across parts of the Southern United States.
A large EF1 tornado moved through Shreveport, Bossier City, and Red Chute, Louisiana during the early morning hours and downed many trees, one of which fell onto a travel trailer and killed a child inside.
During the mid-morning hours, an EF2 tornado embedded in the squall line struck Meridian, Mississippi, causing significant damage to homes and apartment buildings.
One high-end EF2 tornado destroyed homes and businesses, and damaged an elementary school as it moved through populated areas of Greensboro, North Carolina, injuring ten people.
While low-level shear was relatively weak, elevated CAPE values, steep lapse rates, and leftover outflow boundaries were previous storms were all present in the threat area.
[41] Scattered tornadoes, a couple of which were strong, occurred across portions of the northern Great Plains, following the issuance of a moderate risk of severe weather by the Storm Prediction Center.
[30] The first tornado struck Franklin Township in Bradford County, where multiple homes were heavily damaged or destroyed, trailers were tossed, and many trees were snapped or uprooted.
This included a large EF3 tornado that touched down near Capitol, Montana and passed near Camp Crook, South Dakota, destroying a home, outbuildings, and multiple pieces of farm machinery.
[30] During the early morning hours of July 10, a brief but strong EF2 tornado struck the Prairie View RV Park on the south side of Watford City, North Dakota.
The tornado was embedded in a squall line that was moving through the area, and destroyed numerous RVs, trailers, manufactured homes, and other structures along its short path.
This was due to an inaccurate analysis of a low-pressure system over the northern part of the state, which in turn caused the National Weather Service to underestimate how conducive the environment was for tornadogenesis.
Four weak tornadoes touched down in Colorado on July 27, including an EF1 near Byers that tore much of the roof off of a house and flipped a UPS truck, injuring the driver.
[59] The Storm Prediction Center issued an enhanced risk of severe weather for portions of the Great Lakes region of the United States on September 20.
[67][59] A localized but damaging outbreak of tornadoes impacted eastern Ontario and southern Quebec on the afternoon of September 21 as tornadic supercells moved through the area.
A high-end EF3 tornado damaged or destroyed hundreds of structures and vehicles, and injured numerous people as it struck Dunrobin, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec.
The most significant tornadoes of the event occurred in Pennsylvania, including an EF2 that severely damaged buildings at a nursing home facility in Conneautville, injuring one person.
On November 2, despite only a marginal risk being issued by the Storm Prediction Center, scattered tornadoes continued further east in the Mid-Atlantic region and southward into Florida.
Tornadic activity intensified and pushed into the Middle Tennessee region by the early morning hours of November 6; a high-end EF2 tornado near Christiana destroyed several homes, including a poorly-anchored house that was flipped completely upside-down, killing one person inside.
A geographically concentrated outbreak of tornadoes occurred in central and western Illinois on the first day of meteorological winter, including an EF3 wedge that caused major structural damage to homes and businesses in Taylorville, injuring 22 people.
Numerous large trees were snapped or uprooted, outbuildings were destroyed, and multiple homes sustained severe damage as a result of this strong tornado, including a few that had their roofs completely torn off.
Roofs were ripped off of well-built homes, vehicles were damaged, windows were shattered, power poles were downed, and large amounts of scaffolding was destroyed at a construction site.
[118] The next day, a rain-wrapped tornado struck Sumbermalang, Situbondo regency, causing significant damage to 270 houses and a school building as it moved through the villages of Baderane and Taman Kursi.
[123] A violent EF3 (rated by PREVOTS) tornado passed through several municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul, causing two deaths and leaving behind thousands of damaged or destroyed homes.
Some of the worst damage along the path of the tornado occurred in the Ciríaco area, where houses were completely destroyed and a man was found dead underneath his collapsed home.