- Title: In Rolling Fork, Mississippi, a destruction that defies description
- Date: 26th March 2023
- Summary: ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI, UNITED STATES (MARCH 25, 2023) (REUTERS) DEBRIS OVERTURNED CAR DAMAGED CAR NEXT TO BARE TREE FLATTENED PLYWOOD, DEBRIS FALLEN BRANCHES IN A NARROW STREAM VARIOUS OF A SILVER-COLORED VEHICLE ATOP A PILE OF DEBRIS A SIGN THAT READS "LOVE CAN BRIDGE ANY GAP", PAN TO BROKEN TREES ON THE BANKS OF A NARROW STREAM OF WATER VARIOUS OF A DESTROYED TRUCK S
- Embargoed: 9th April 2023 01:10
- Keywords: Mississippi Rolling Fork Tornado
- Location: ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI, UNITED STATES
- City: ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI, UNITED STATES
- Country: US
- Topics: Disaster/Accidents,North America,Wind/Hurricane/Typhoons/Tornadoes,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001030825032023RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Video taken in Rolling Fork, a town of 1,700 in western Mississippi that was hit hardest by a powerful storm on Saturday (March 25), showed homes reduced to rubble, tree trunks snapped like twigs, and cars and trucks tossed aside.
The storm tore across Mississippi overnight, killing at least 25 people there and another in Alabama, leveling dozens of buildings, and spawning at least one devastating tornado.
The tornado stayed on the ground for about an hour and cut a path of destruction some 170 miles (274 km) long, according to preliminary information, said Nicholas Price, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson, Mississippi.
On Saturday afternoon, Mississippi's emergency management agency said that the death toll had risen to 25, with dozens more injured. The agency said four people who had been reported missing earlier have been located.
At least 12 deaths occurred in Rolling Fork, its mayor, Eldridge Walker, told CNN earlier in the day.
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