Since records began in 1950, through 2011 there were 3651 tornadoes in March (for an average of 59 per year).
The number in March 2012 is highly uncertain. There were 3 confirmed tornadoes on March 1.
As of March 2 there is an extremely large tornado outbreak ongoing. The number of tornadoes will be in the dozens, but it is impossible to know what the final number will be. Surveying and confirming these tornadoes will take days.
There were 102 tornadoes in Oklahoma in 2010.
The U.S. had 1282 tornadoes in 2010.
There were 934 tornadoes recorded in the U.S. in 2002.
There were 115 recorded tornadoes in Texas in 2012.
There were 21 recorded tornadoes in Georgia in 2006.
There were 147 recorded tornadoes in the United States in March 2006. Worldwide records are not available.
There were 1,103 recorded tornadoes in the U.S. in 2006.
There were 48 recorded tornadoes in Illinois in 2010.
1,282 tornadoes occurred in the US. in 2010, with an unknown number worldwide.
There have been large outbreaks of tornadoes in many place, but the largest numbers of tornadoes occur in the central United States.
Records for the whole world are not available. The U.S. had 1,339 recorded tornadoes that year.
As of April 30 there have been no recorded tornadoes in Kansas in 2013, which is unusual.