Throwback 2012 #6 April's Abundance of Tornadoes

April Showers bring no Flowers? Well that's sure what happen this year. April 2012 was filled with supercell thunderstorms that spawned tornadoes all over the Mid West and South, however, the threat of tornadoes slowly diminished as the US moved into the summer months. Since there were a couple of large scale events, I thought it would be easier to group them into one single post.

First on the list of April Tornadoes is the tornado outbreak in norther Texas that occurred April 2nd and 3rd. The hardest hit areas were those that were around the Dallas, Fort Worth area. Specifically, a Suburb called Forney, Texas. An EF 3 tornado went through this town destroying many homes and even some of the school. However, fortuity no one was killed only a few were injured. Here is a photo of some of the damage in North Texas. Photo From: denverpost.com


The next tornado outbreak of 2012 occurred on April 13th-14th in the Great Plains. I remember the Storm Prediction Center had this outbreak predicted for over a week. There was all of the right ingredients for a large scale event to take place. This tornado outbreak had 114 confirmed tornadoes. The most severe tornado out of the outbreak was an EF 4, which occurred near Lyons, Kansas. Luckily, even with this large scale event only 6 tornado related fatalities were recorded. 

The other tornado outbreak occurred on April 28th- May 1st in the Ohio River Valley. This is a smaller scale outbreak compared to the April 13th-14th occurrence. The April 28th through May 1st outbreak only recorded 35 tornadoes. No fatalities were reported and the highest rated tornado was an EF 2 tornado.

Info from:
noaa.gov