April 2
- 1957 – A highly-visible multiple-vortex F3 tornado struck Dallas, Texas, killing 10 people and injuring 216. Many poorly-built homes were leveled. The tornado was photographed or filmed by more than 100 people, including some of the highest-quality film of a tornado in the twentieth century. The wind speed, estimated from photogrammetry, was about 175 mph (280 km/h). Other tornadoes from the same outbreak killed 8 people across Texas and Oklahoma on this day.
- 1982 – A tornado outbreak hit the central and southern United States, resulting in 30 deaths. An F4 tornado destroyed 465 homes and apartments across the northern part of Paris, Texas, killing 10 people and injuring 170. An F3 tornado killed five people in Hope, Arkansas, all in one family. One tornado near Broken Bow, Oklahoma was officially rated F5, but that rating is disputed.
- 2006 – A large tornado outbreak killed 27 people across the Midwestern United States and Mississippi River Valley. An F3 tornado devastated Newbern, Tennessee, killing 16 people, Another F3 tornado killed six people in Bradford, Tennessee.