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Action News 5 on MSN‘I thought we were going to die’: North Mississippi man remembers moments during tornadoNeighbors are still searching for memories scattered across the fields of their destroyed homes in north Mississippi.
SLAYDEN, Miss. (WTVA) — The National Weather Service rated a mid-week tornado in Marshall County as an EF-3 storm. The dangerous storm swept through the north Mississippi county on Wednesday, April 2. The storm damaged 26 homes and injured one person, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
Drone video shows the devastation left behind by an EF-3 tornado that struck the town of Selmer in southwestern Tennessee early Thursday morning.
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A four-day, once-in-a-generation weather event is pounding the middle of the U.S. with destructive tornadoes and life-threatening flooding.
Mississippi was pounded by tornadoes spawned by severe storms that came through the state Friday and Saturday. The storms destroyed homes, upended lives and are blamed for multiple deaths in Mississippi. Mississippi was one of a number of states impacted ...
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The Mississippi Delta town of Rolling Fork was devastated by an EF-4 tornado in 2023. The town was hit by another small tornado Sunday night.
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WAPT on MSNTornado touches down in MississippiAccording to Lamar County emergency managers, trees were reported down after the tornado passed. Several structures were damaged around Johnson Road, Vernon Gipson Lane and McGraw Road. This was not the only tornado warning in Mississippi. Tornado warnings were also issued overnight for Amite, Monroe, Lowndes and Tippah counties.
Twenty-four homes and two farms reported damage. This most recent round of storms came just a few weeks after 18 tornadoes touched down across the state on March 14 and 15.
The threat is highest in spring each year, and more severe weather is forecast across central and northern Mississippi later this week.
The small twister might have gone unreported by the media at-large except for news about the location. Two years prior -- nearly to the day -- the town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, was devastated by a violent EF4 tornado which killed 17 people under cover of darkness.