article_snippet: Television coverage on Wednesday evening showed a small twister on the ground.
article_snippet: The tornado season usually ramps up for parts of the U.S. in March, but weather patterns funneled cold air into much of the country, depriving the atmosphere of the warm, moist air necessary for form bad storms for most of the month.
article_snippet: This will be the 'tornado' that breaks the drought for March,' Greg Carbin, warning coordination meteorologist for the Storm Prediction Center, said Wednesday.
article_snippet: Before this week, only about two-dozen twisters had been recorded this year during a period when about 120 are typical.
article_snippet: The last time the U.S. had no twisters in March was nearly 50 years ago, according to figures from the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.