EF2 tornado in Carroll County, Tennessee

The tornado formed just southwest of the Carroll County Airport and moved east, crossing Highway 77 near the intersection with Highway 219. The tornado lifted near Highway 114 near Allen Creek. Numerous trees were knocked down along the tornado path. Several houses, barns, and grain bins were damaged. The worst damage was on Chapel Hill Road. Peak winds were estimated at 125 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.