Bobby Watkins and his wife huddled beneath their old oak dining table for shelter as storm winds roaring outside their MS home tossed a barn onto their truck outside, tore the steeple off a nearby church and reduced a neighbouring building to rubble.
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Among the dead was a 7-year-old boy in Holly Springs, Mississippi, according to Mayor Kelvin Buck. Four other people in the house, including an 18-month-old, survived.
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Some survivors of deadly storms across the Southeast lost their homes and belongings, but say they’re thankful to see another Christmas.
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The previous deaths in Tennessee were a 70-year-old male and a 69-year-old female in Perry County, and a 22-year-old male in Rhea County. No further details about the circumstances were immediately available.
Schelzig reported from Linden, Tennessee. Exactly a year ago, twisters hit MS, killing five people and injuring dozens.
Emergency officials in Tennessee anxious that powerful winds could turn holiday yard decorations into projectiles, the same way gusts can fling patio furniture in springtime storms, said Marty Clements, director of the Madison County Emergency Management Agency in Jackson, the state’s largest city between Memphis and Nashville. By the time firefighters managed to put out the blaze, an Associated Press reporter counted the charred remains of more than 100 corpses. The springlike storms packing strong winds killed two more in Tennessee.
One person is unaccounted for in Benton County and more than 40 others were injured across North Mississippi.
Storm Prediction Center meteorologist Matt Mosier says a preliminary report shows that there were 14 tornadoes to touchdown in Mississippi. Interstate 55 was closed in both directions as the tornado approached, the Mississippi Highway Patrol said.
Despite being newly homeless, Perkins said the tragedy helped her “stop and realize what Christmas is all about”. The room’s walls had been blown away. “The roofs came off and most of the walls are gone”. Their house sustained structural damage but was still standing.
The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Centre said there was a very slim chance of more tornadoes in the area although severe thunderstorms were possible.
Planes at a small airport in the north-west of the state were overturned and an unknown number of people were injured. She started praying when she heard sheet metal hitting trees.
Authorities in parts of MS are conducting a house-by-house search-and-rescue operation after the state was hit by multiple tornadoes.
Television images on The Weather Channel showed what appeared to be a twister moving along the ground for several minutes near Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Property damage and injuries were reported by state emergency management officials across a three-county area, and Pilger was hardest hit. Bryant said seven people were killed and one person was missing.
Dramatic photos of the storm bearing down on Holly Springs emerged Wednesday night. Three homes were destroyed.
“Everybody is pulling together here in MS today to help respond to this disaster”, Bryant said on CNN. Rescuers pulled the toddler safely from the home.
On Wednesday, two days before Christmas, the South woke up to tornado warnings and damage.
Severe storms are sweeping across the country’s mid-section and a death has been reported in Arkansas.
“It’s bad, but it could have been a whole lot worse”, the Marshall County Sheriff said of the destruction.
No other details have been released.
Residents are advised to stay off the roads.
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“If it is continuous it would be the longest track DEC tornado on record here in the Mid-South”, the agency posted on Twitter.
