March 5
- 1963 – An F4 tornado moved through Bessemer, Alabama and other communities south and southwest of Birmingham, destroying 29 homes and damaging more than 240 others. Thirty-five people were injured.
- 1989 – A small tornado outbreak affected the Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. An F2 tornado traveled 53 mi (85 km) in eastern Alabama and western Georgia killing one person in a trailer near Franklin, Georgia and injuring six. An F3 tornado hit Grantville, Georgia, injuring 23 people, including 8 in the destruction of a newly-built motel. A trailer park and subdivision were also hit and a total of 86 homes were damaged or destroyed.
- 2022 – Seven people in Iowa died as the result of a tornado outbreak. A long-track EF4 tornado killed six people near Winterset, four of them in one family, and caused damage in the suburbs of Des Moines, amounting to $220 million.