A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_March_2–3,_2012" id="mwAZk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2012">tornado outbreak</a> occurs over a large section of the Southern United States and into the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Valley" id="mwAZo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ohio Valley">Ohio Valley</a> region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.