Tornadoes of 2020

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, Australia and New Zealand.

[51] With severe storms continuing into the early morning hours of March 19, two EF2 tornadoes caused considerable damage to trees, vehicles, farming equipment, and outbuildings near Trent, Texas.

[54][55][56] A large EF2 tornado touched down near Everton, Arkansas, before moving through the southeastern part of town, causing significant damage to homes, a school, outbuildings, and trees.

A large EF3 tornado struck the city of Jonesboro, Arkansas, while being streamed live on local news stations, producing major damage to homes, businesses, and a shopping mall.

[60] A low-end EF2 tornado touched down in Corydon, Kentucky, moved through the southern fringes of Henderson, destroying numerous outbuildings and a barn, snapping power poles, and damaging dozens of homes and trees.

[69] On March 31, multiple supercells and embedded mesocyclones formed along and just ahead of a convective line, producing several tornadoes across parts of the Southeastern United States.

At 10:40 a.m. CDT on April 12, a Particularly Dangerous Situation Tornado Watch was issued by the Storm Prediction Center across northeast Louisiana, southeast Arkansas, and central and northern Mississippi.

The second one reached high-end EF4 strength as it completely debarked trees, lofted vehicles hundreds of yards through the air, and obliterated well-built homes and structures in and around the towns of Bassfield, Soso, and Moss.

At 4:40 p.m. CDT, a second PDS watch was issued affecting extreme southeast Mississippi and most of Alabama, including the cities of Mobile, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa, and Birmingham.

An EF2 tornado also passed just south of Alexandria, Louisiana, damaging structures at LSU-Alexandria, and killing one person east of Woodworth when a mobile home was destroyed.

[79] A strong, long-tracked EF2 tornado, with winds between 180 and 220 km/hour, struck the town of Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico damaging over 100 cars, overturning 12 tractor-trailers, and knocking down trees, lamp posts, and power lines.

This included an EF0 tornado that caused damage in the Chicago suburbs of Minooka and Shorewood, downing trees and power poles and flipping a car on I-80, injuring the driver.

[115][116][117] Simultaneously to Tropical Storm Cristobal, a strong cold front moved slowly through the High Plains and Great Lakes regions, producing widespread severe weather and spawning numerous tornadoes.

[128] Early on July 8, the same line of storms produced an EF2 tornado that caused considerable damage to outbuildings, farming equipment, trees, and power poles near Henning, Minnesota.

That afternoon, a rapidly intensifying supercell generated a relatively narrow, but violent EF4 tornado, which was described by storm chasers as being a "drillbit" at times, that significantly damaged or destroyed three farmsteads south of Dalton, Minnesota.

An EF1 tornado also struck the small community of Camden East, where an older brick building had its roof blown off and thrown into a nearby country store.

An EF2 tornado also injured six people as it struck the Northeastern Philadelphia suburbs, tossing vehicles at a hospital parking lot and heavily damaging a daycare center in Doylestown.

At around 8 p.m., a large and highly photogenic EF3 cone tornado touched down in southern Manitoba, passing near the towns of Virden and Scarth, causing considerable damage to a farm.

Farming equipment was tossed and mangled, the ground was scarred by debris impacts, and two people were killed while another was injured when the tornado lofted their cars into the air and threw them into a field.

[147][148][149] A massive, long-tracked, destructive derecho that traveled over 770 miles (1,240 km) from southeastern South Dakota to western Ohio generated 25 weak tornadoes.

A low-end EF2 tornado embedded within a line of severe storms moved through populated areas of Arlington, Texas, during the nighttime hours of November 24, damaging warehouses, and ripping a large section of roofing off of an apartment complex.

In Italy, violent downburst winds struck areas between Verona and Vicenza, and large hail up to 5–6 centimetres (2.0–2.4 in) hit the regions of Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia and Friuli.

[184] Supercellular thunderstorms produced by the associated low of Subtropical Storm Alpha moved across Portugal, spawning two confirmed tornadoes in Beja and Palmela.

The outbreak started that morning when a large tornadic waterspout struck the eastern portions of the Italian city of Salerno, uprooting trees, causing light structural damage, and injuring one person.

Lastly, a large, strong F2 tornado touched down in Ukraine's Kherson region in the village of Velikaya Aleksandrovka, causing widespread damage to over 300 residential buildings and hundreds of other structures, including a school that was unroofed.

[200][201][202] A tornado caused a large wood processing warehouse in Vĩnh Phúc Province of Vietnam to collapse, killing three people and injuring eighteen others.

[203] A tornado touched down in the Kendrapara District of Odisha and caused damage to 70 thatched houses in the villages of Talchua, Tikayat Nagar, RajendraNagar, Baghamari, Giria Pahi, Garta and Banipal in Rajnagar Block.

[204] On July 22, an isolated supercell thunderstorm moved through Anhui Province in China, producing a strong, long-tracked tornado that passed through rural areas near Suzhou, snapping numerous large trees and scouring farm fields.

The following day, a tornado hit the northern Auckland suburb of Dairy Flat, knocking down trees and damaging homes, including one that lost much of its roof.

[218] On the evening of December 10, severe thunderstorms formed over South Africa, spawning a tornado that struck five villages near Middledrift, Eastern Cape, damaging or destroying dozens of homes.

High-end EF2 damage to a house near Carrollton, Alabama.
EF2 damage to a house near Kannapolis, North Carolina.
Vehicles flipped and damaged by an EF2 tornado at a correctional facility near Abilene, Texas.
EF3 tornado damage to metal warehouse buildings at the Jonesboro Municipal Airport .
High-end EF2 damage to a home south of Eufaula, Alabama.
High-end EF4 damage to a large, well-anchored cabin northeast of Bassfield, Mississippi.
Low-end EF4 damage to a home east of Estill, South Carolina .
EF4 tornado damage to a home near Sandy Hook, Mississippi.
EF2 damage to a manufacturing facility in Madill, Oklahoma.
The EF2 tornado that caused two fatalities in Apodaca, Mexico.
A destroyed grain bin near Church Point, Louisiana.
Mobile homes destroyed near Windsor, North Carolina , by an EF3 tornado.
Radar loop around the time of the Murfreesboro, North Carolina EF0 tornado that prompted a PDS tornado warning .
EF2 damage to an apartment building in Arlington, Texas.
EF2 damage to a warehouse in Pinellas Park, Florida.