US President Biden issues an emergency declaration for Mississippi, making federal funding available to the areas hardest hit by a deadly tornado that ripped through the Mississippi Delta
President Joe Biden has issued an emergency declaration for Mississippi, making federal funding available to Carroll, Humphreys, Monroe and Sharkey counties, the areas hardest hit on Friday night by a deadly tornado that ripped through the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions of the US.
Search and recovery crews on Sunday resumed the daunting task of digging through the debris of flattened and battered homes, commercial buildings and municipal offices after hundreds of people were displaced. Based on early data, the tornado received a preliminary EF-4 rating, the National Weather Service office in Jackson said late Saturday in a tweet. An EF-4 tornado has top wind gusts between 265 kph and 320 kph, according to the service. The Jackson office cautioned it was still gathering information on the tornado.Rare, long-track tornado
"That’s rare — very, very rare," he said, attributing the long path to widespread atmospheric instability.
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