section_path: February/February 12 (United States)
section_name: February 12 (United States)
paragraph_text: February 12 (United States)
  
  A second, more potent storm system impacted the southeast on February 12, bringing severe thunderstorms and a risk of tornadoes. That evening, a few tornadoes touched down in Mississippi and Alabama, including two strong tornadoes. In Mississippi, a high-end EF0 tornado moved through the east side of Columbia, heavily damaging a hardware store, destroying a few sheds, and damaging the roofs of homes in town. A supercell in Wayne County produced a powerful multiple-vortex EF3 tornado that touched down in a rural area to the east of Laurel before it tracked to the northeast near Whistler and dissipated near Matherville, prompting a PDS tornado warning. The tornado inflicted major structural damage to a few frame homes, and several mobile homes were completely swept away and obliterated, with their metal frames and debris strewn hundreds of yards across fields. Wooded areas suffered total deforestation, including large trees that were snapped, stripped of their branches, and sustained partial debarking. Some ground scouring also occurred, while a pickup truck, pieces of farming equipment, and RVs were thrown and destroyed as well. In Alabama, A low-end EF2 tornado passed near Tattlersville, prompting another PDS tornado warning to be issued. The tornado snapped or uprooted many trees in remote wooded areas and destroyed a poorly-constructed house. A total of five tornadoes were confirmed, resulting in no fatalities and three injuries.