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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The National Weather Service confirms eight tornadoes hit Mississippi last week. Nobody was injured by the twisters, which damaged trees, power lines and some buildings on Friday. Tornadoes were reported in Rankin, Warren, Claiborne, Copiah, Jefferson Davis and Covington counties. The strongest storm hit southeast of Port Gibson in Claiborne County, […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The National Weather Service confirms three more tornadoes hit Mississippi last week. No one was injured in the twisters, which mainly caused tree damage on Wednesday. The longest was in Choctaw County, striking near French Camp and ending 8.6 miles (13.9 kilometers) later near Ackerman. With top winds of 110 mph […]
BENTONIA, Miss. (AP) – The National Weather Service confirms two tornadoes touched central Mississippi Sunday. No one was injured. A survey shows a twister with top winds of 90 mph (145 kph) struck Bentonia at 1:37 a.m. Sunday. The tornado, rated EF-1 on the enhanced Fujita scale, traveled for 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) before lifting […]
By JIM SUHR KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A severe storm system pummeled parts of the Midwest overnight with tornadoes, huge hailstones and powerful winds, damaging dozens of buildings and injuring at least 10 people in Missouri. The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, received reports of 32 tornadoes in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Illinois […]
By KEVIN McGILL NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Brittany Ross remembers she was savoring the smell of her aunt’s simmering white beans when the storm that injured about 40 people in southeastern Louisiana hit. “The place started shaking, kind of twisting,” she said Tuesday as she stood amid the wreckage at a small trailer park in […]
OKLAHOMA CITY — Tornadoes destroyed homes, overturned vehicles and stripped the bark from trees Monday as they churned across Oklahoma, part of a strong series of storms that hit the Plains. At least two people died in weather so violent that forecasters declared a “tornado emergency” for communities in the path of one of the […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The Mississippi congressional delegation is asking President Barack Obama to issue a disaster declaration for areas of the state devastated by Dec. 23 tornadoes. Gov. Phil Bryant has requested a major federal disaster declaration, including hazard mitigation assistance statewide. The Mississippi delegation asks the White House in the Jan. 5 letter […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A severe storm system rolled across the South for a second day Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands as it made a mess of the morning commute in Atlanta and other Southern cities. The storm, which claimed two lives a day earlier after spinning off tornadoes in Arkansas and Missouri, sent heavy […]