Tornado Outbreak Rakes Mississippi & Louisanna F3 tornado touches down in Rankin County, MIss., April 6, 2005
Posted on 03/26/2009 2:52:11 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Edited on 03/26/2009 2:54:53 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A tornado swept through central Mississippi as residents slept early Thursday morning, injuring at least 20 people and damaging more than 60 buildings, including a church and a water treatment plant, state emergency management officials said.
Even as residents of rural Simpson County dug out, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency warned that an onslaught of tempestuous spring weather was likely to continue through Saturday morning in the form of even stronger tornadoes, flooding and hail, said Greg Flynn, an agency spokesman.
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Ouch.
Tornado Outbreak Rakes Mississippi & Louisanna F3 tornado touches down in Rankin County, MIss., April 6, 2005
Good shot.
hope everyone is OK
recently a local film group and the Red Cross were looking for volunteers for a film about an F-5 hitting Dallas
Prayers for those people. The front is headed our way tonight/tomorrow.
I was in jackson about a week after the tornado here. NE jackson residential streets were simply full of segmented large trees awaiting removal - could not see the curb on most of many residential streets. Have never seen anything like it besides Katrina debris field MS GC.
"At about 10:30 a.m. a super cell in a line of thunderstorms moving through Lauderdale County spawned the tornado that caused moderate to heavy damage to homes in the Sam Gray Road area. The storm then moved across Highway 145 and then across Highway 45 South to Mitchum Bottom Road. Finally the storm cut across the Causeyville and Zero communities where it left downed power lines and toppled trees."
Awful power of Mother Nature.
Oh, that looks nasty!
looks active the next two days over the south
several threads here
http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showforum=14
also very active nationwide the next 2 weeks
also major snowstorm/blizzard OK/into KS
Here we go again!
NWS Radar,,,
Tornado Warnings are up in central Louisiana,,,Again,,,
Same general track...
It’s on its. Magee and Mendenhall, MS got spanked big time last night.
Tiz’ the season,,,
McComb area has a Tornado Warning now,,,
Gunna be a long night for some,,,
Prayers Up...
Tomorrow is the big day....
From what I saw on Fox those folks have one big mess to clean up,,,
Everybody that has roof damage will get soaked again...:0/
Not only that, but they are forecasting a potential tornado outbreak for tomorrow...
That’s life in Mississippi. It’s ground zero where tornados are concerned. Still, I loved living there.
Prayers of protection for everyone in the path of those monsters.
Prayers for those in harm’s way.
I lived in Xenia OH for the famous Xenia Tornado in 1974. They still talk about that on the Whether Channel.
Warning boxes down except for the Flash Flood Warning,,,
Gunna be reeeally,reeally Wet...
Prayers for all involved/affected. Weather can be nasty sometimes.
I can’t believe some of those folks along the Red River are still sitting there in their houses! Talk about denial.
They must have a death wish.
As a kid, during a soccer tournament in Brandon, MS (Rankin County, where your photo was taken) we were rushed to a ditch and jumped in as a tornado flew over.
Snakes and toads and smelly water rained down on us.
Up there with my least favorite memories of life.
Looks like that could be the field I was on -— who knows, this was in the early 1970s.
I guess some folks just won’t leave what they call “home”.
(Katrina)
“Hide from Wind,Run from Water” comes to mind,,,
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NWS radar now shows Tornado Warnings in central Louisiana
Heading ENE...
the worst is going south of my folks in jones county.
How did Madison fair through all of this? Seems those storms keep going right through the capital area.
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