The death toll is now at 14 but could rise in the coming days.
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The Storm Prediction Center said at least 14 tornadoes hit MS on Wednesday, but a single twister did most of the damage. Among the victims were a 19-year-old girl and two 22-year-old men.
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“They’re opening all our tornado shelters because they say there’s an 80 per cent chance of a tornado today”, Holland said. No further information was available.
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Tornadoes touched down in IN and MS, where three were killed.
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In the eastern United States, one of the warmest Christmas Eve’s on record unfolded as temperatures soared 15-35 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. Dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed. There have been more than 60 injuries attributed to the storms. Two were in Marshall County, and the other was in Tippah County.
On Thursday, four soaked counties told residents to stay home.
Why? Because his mother and sister, who were home when the twister hit, weren’t hurt.
A state of emergency has been declared in MS and in Georgia heavy rain caused flash floods and a landslide, bringing roads to a standstill.
Charles and Daisy Johnson, of Benton County, Miss., left, survey the damage to their home, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015.
Dozens more were injured, some seriously, said Greg Flynn, spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
About 120 miles east of the tornado, Brandi Holland, a convenience store clerk in Tupelo, Mississippi, said people were reminded of a tornado that damaged or destroyed more than 2,000 homes and businesses in April 2014.
“This right here is a mess, but I can’t complain because we’re blessed”, he said.
Peak tornado season in the U.S. South is in the spring, but such storms can happen at any time.
“Pilger is gone”, said Sanford Goshorn, director of emergency management for Stanton County. The springlike storms packing strong winds killed two more in Tennessee.
You can expect another good chance for rain and thunderstorms for Christmas Day and there is a marginal risk that a storm may become severe.
“Details are still sketchy”, said Jason Holmes, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
Along Mississippi Highway 7 close to Johnson’s house, headlights from passing cars illuminated downed tree limbs, slabs of plasterboard and wooden beams that had been turned into projectiles when the tornado passed. He said some of the injuries include amputations.
And rescuers fear the death toll could rise as they search through the rubble of wrecked buildings.
Pastor Melvin Howard of the Mount Olive Full Gospel Church said he came rushing to the area of Jefferson Avenue and 50th Street in Birmingham when he heard the storm hit.
The storms, feeding on unseasonable warm air, left a trail of destruction in rural communities from IL to Alabama, just as Christmas reached its crescendo. It’s part of the same cell that warranted an earlier tornado warning in Tuscaloosa County, southwest of the Jefferson.
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Among the dead in MS was a boy of seven after one particularly brutal storm picked up and tossed the vehicle he was in, said fire chief Kenny Holbrook of Holly Springs.
