Tornado Emergency Declared in Arkansas
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A deadly tornado outbreak spawned more than 20 reports of twisters across the lower and mid-Mississippi Valley on Wednesday and Wednesday night.
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A life-threatening outbreak of long-lived and strong tornadoes is expected today in parts of the central and eastern US from a powerful, wide-reaching spring storm.
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Storm and tornado damage across Mid-South
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Several tornadoes have been reported across the Mid-South on Wednesday through Thursday morning, leaving destruction behind.
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At least six people have been killed in a wide swath of violent storms and tornadoes that hit the South and Midwest, and officials are bracing for more severe weather and flooding in the coming days.
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At least 19 tornadoes struck on Wednesday, destroying homes and businesses, injuring at least eight people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands.
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WAPT on MSNTornado touches down in MississippiA severe storm in Marion County dropped a tornado early Monday morning. The 16 WAPT weather team caught the confirmed tornado on radar as it moved out of east Marion and into Lamar County. A survey team with the National Weather Service in Jackson determined that it was a high-end EF-2 tornado with winds of up to 135 mph.
The National Weather Service issued 10 tornado warnings in Southeast Missouri on April 2, with one EF-2 tornado confirmed. The storm caused structural damage but no injuries were reported.
Yet again, another round of severe weather is set to threaten the central U.S. with damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes starting late Tuesday and continuing through Thursday.
A destructive weather event will continue for millions of people across the Mid-South on Thursday, with the marathon storm persisting until Sunday.
Tornados have been reported in at least eight states this week, after powerful storms swept across the country.
A deadly severe outbreak spawned at least one tornado in 14 states from March 14-16. Hardest hit were Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and Missouri.
Sharkey County's emergency management director "attempted to get to his house while watching the tornado come across farm fields," an official said, as Rolling Fork mourned two years since the 2023 twister outbreak.
WATCH: Severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings pepper the Mid-South ahead of main line of extreme weather
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.
In what has historically been known as Tornado Alley — a designation that typically includes Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas — the peak of tornado season is May into early June. But the season starts earlier in what's often called Dixie Alley, made up of southern states such as Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.