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February 12

• 1945 – A tornado outbreak in the Deep South killed 45 people. The worst casualties were on the west side of Montgomery, Alabama, where an F3 tornado killed 26 people and injured 293. An F4 tornado killed 11 people in and near York and Livingston, Alabama and an F3 tornado killed 5 people South of Meridian, Mississippi.
• 1950 – The worst day of a three-day tornado outbreak resulted in at least 35 deaths in the Southern United States. A long-track F4 tornado (possibly a tornado family) hit portions of Shreveport, Louisiana and Barksdale Air Force Base (then known as Slack AFB) and killed 18 people.