During cold season tornado events in the southeastern United States, Guyer et al. (2006) and Guyer and Dean (2010) note that buoyancy tends to be limited and vertical wind shear tends to be large in the near storm environment. Ashley (2007) concludes that this part of the country is particularly vulnerable to tornado fatalities owing to the mutual overlap of favorable climatological, land-use, and societal patterns, which highlights the need for improving forecast accuracy of these events.