#OnThisDay: Selected February tornadoes

Note: If you follow the account on Twitter or Facebook, you’ll see these every day at least twice (for the first year of this project at least!). In addition, I will catalog them here on ustornadoes.com as a list in one post per month. We’ll do regular chronological order for now and see how that goes. In future months, I will probably make this post at the start — or near the start — of the month and then add to it as the month progresses. For now, I will skip going back to the beginning of February, but rather begin on the 13th which was the first full day of the Twitter feed.

Feb 13, 1966
F2 strikes Oglethorpe County, GA before sunrise. Damage to trailers, brick house, and poultry houses.

Feb 13, 1948
F3 strikes Newton, MS. 30 homes destroyed and scattered for miles. One of a number same day. 5k, 36inj.

Feb 14, 1908
F3 tornado passes through parts of Tyler, TX. About 20 homes destroyed, clothes sent miles away. 4k, 20inj.

Feb 14, 1908
The 2nd F3 tornado of day hits Jones/Jasper counties in MS. Hundreds of trees uprooted, debris carried miles.

Feb 15, 1954
Johnson County AR was hit by an F3 tornado with a width of 100 yards. It injured 24.

Feb 15, 1987
An F2 tornado tore a 3 mile path in LA just to the north of Lake Verret.

Feb 15, 1939
4 sig tornadoes hit South, with an F2 near Mount Pinson, AL where 3 houses were destroyed and a man died.

Feb 16, 2000
An F0 tornado touched down in Los Angeles County, CA near Covina.

Feb 16, 1903
Tornadoes hit the South, including four F2s in SC & MS. A child was killed and homes destroyed in Laurens, SC.

Feb 17, 1927
One of a number of tornadoes, an F2 struck near Rose Hill MS. Two houses swept away, killing 8 and injuring 6.

Feb 17, 1938
An F4 tornado plowed from Cass Cty TX to Caddo Cty LA killing 21 & injuring 50. Homes of all sizes “vanished.”

Feb 17, 2008
An EF-3 tornado passes through Prattville, AL injuring 50 and causing $10 million in damage.

Feb 18, 1980
Stafford County, VA — to the south of DC — was hit by an F1 tornado that traveled two miles.

Feb 18, 1992
A powerful F4 tornado hit rural Van West County in OH. It caused two injuries.

Feb 19, 1949
An F2 hit Covington County AL destroying two farm homes.

Feb 19, 1991
An F3 tornado carved a 5 mile path through largely rural San Augustine County in eastern TX.

Feb 20, 1937
An outbreak hits, including five significant tornadoes (F2+) that hit MO, MS and LA.

Feb 20, 1937
Strongest tornado of day, F3 from Ozark to Marshfield (32 mi path) MO damaged/destroyed 30 buildings. 11 inj.

Feb 21, 1971
The only F5/EF5 tornado on record in Feb since 1950 crossed from LA into MS, killing 47 & injuring 500+.

Feb 21, 1912
An F2 struck Buckingham and Fluvanna counties in VA and crossed the James River. One home destroyed.

Feb 21, 1925
A series of tornadoes, including four F2+, hit OK and AR into 22nd. F3 hit Loco OK killing 1 and injuring 5.

Feb 22, 1945
In AL, an F2 tornado traveled through Kellyton leveling barns and damaging homes.

Feb 22, 1998
Central FL outbreak drops 9 tornadoes 22nd-23rd. Three F3s near Orlando. 42 killed, 259injured.

Feb 23, 1909
One of many tornadoes, an F4 tore a 35 mile path through northeast AR. Fisher nearly destroyed. 8k, 81inj.

Feb 23, 1917
Six F2+ tornadoes struck AL, GA & MS. One F3 struck near Whitsitt to Newbern AL, killing 6 and injuring 15.

Feb 24, 1926
Tornadoes, including 3 F2s, hit AR and MS. One traveled 20 miles and killed 7 while injuring 27.

Feb 24, 1930
An F2 hit Muskingham County, OH. 4 injured, numerous buildings damaged by “balloon shaped” tornado.

Feb 24, 1935
Tornado Alley saw four significant tornadoes in the states of KS and OK. Strongest was F3.

Feb 25, 1912
An F4 hits AR. It traveled 35 miles from near Tarry to Almyra. 6 people killed in one house. 9k, 35inj overall.

Feb 25, 1929
Tornadoes struck from TX to MS. Largest of the day was an F4 near Bolivar, MS. It killed 19 and injured 42.

Feb 25, 1934
Six significant tornadoes, including an F4 in AL impacted the southern U.S.

Feb 26, 1934
Three F2 tornadoes were observed in FL. 1 person was killed and 8 were injured.

Feb 26, 1936
Two strong tornadoes hit OK and MO. One was an F3 near Turley in Tulsa County.

Feb 26, 1948
Stephens County, TX was hit by an F2 tornado that destroyed a home in Oakley and killed 2.

Feb 27, 1913
At least one F2 tornado traveled from Butler to Pike County in AL. Roughly 70 buildings destroyed. 3k, 4inj.

Feb 27, 1918
An oil derrick that was blown over by an F2 tornado in Osage County OK killed 2, a mother and child.

Feb 27, 1946
An F2 tornado struck near Tampa, FL destroying one home and injuring three.

Feb. 28, 1907
100 buildings were damaged or destroyed by an F2 which hit Washington, AR. 1 person was killed & 10 injured.

Feb 28, 1987
An F4 tornado tore through S MS, killing 6 & injuring 350. 383 structures destroyed, 270 additional damaged.

Feb 29, 1952
An F4 tornado destroyed about 140 homes in Fayetteville, TN. 2 were killed and 150 injured.

Feb 29, 2000
A pair of F0 twisters struck NE MO. These were the last Leap Day tornadoes recorded in the US prior to 2012.

Sources
Thomas P. Grazulis, Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991 (Environmental Films, 1993).
Tornado History Project. http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com