EF1 tornado in Gibson County, Tennessee

Damage to homes and mobile homes was observed from just west of Highway 45E to Highway 105 near the Gibson-Carroll County line. Numerous trees were also damaged along this path. The most significant damage was observed along Gann Road between Goosefoot and Belews Chapel Road. Peak winds were estimated at 95 mph.

A surface low tracked along a warm front stretched just north of the Mid-South. Meanwhile, a potent upper-level disturbance tracked into the region increasing wind fields and triggering thunderstorms along the warm front and south of the front, in the warm sector, during the late evening hours of March 2, 2020. A couple of supercells tracked across the Missouri Bootheel and northwest Tennessee during the late evening hours. One supercell spawned three tornadoes across Gibson, Carroll, and Benton counties. A few severe storms also developed along a trailing cold front across eastern Arkansas and West Tennessee during the early morning hours of March 3, 2020.