The Last Leap Day Was Marred by a Tornado Outbreak

The last Leap Day wasn’t just a curiosity of the Gregorian calendar. February 29, 2012, landed in the midst of a late-winter tornado outbreak stretching from Nebraska to east Tennessee. The so-called Leap Day outbreak actually began the previous day with a pair of tornadoes north of North Platte, Nebraska. They were weak – rated EF0 -…