03.04.10
One Tornado in February
As an update to my post a couple days ago, in which I said no tornadoes were reported in the US in February for the first time since records began around 1950, I stand corrected. A late tornado report made it in to the San Joaquin Valley/Hanford NWS office.
This EF0 tornado was reported by a trained storm spotter near Taft (near Bakersfield) in southern California on February 27th. It reportedly lasted 3 minutes and did not cause any damage.
However, this was still a remarkable month, as only two or three times has February seen only one or two tornadoes since 1950 or so!