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After striking Melbourne, the tornado crossed the Mississippi River and entered Mississippi. In 1984 and 1993 tornado researcher Thomas P. Grazulis assessed the tornado as having caused F4 damage in Louisiana, but in 2001 revised this to accept the official F5 rating. Once in Mississippi, the tornado passed near Mayersville in Issaquena County ...
On the afternoon of Sunday, February 21, 1971, a deadly and long-tracked F5 tornado impacted the Mississippi Delta, killing 48 and injuring over 500.The tornado was the strongest tornado of the 1971 Mississippi Delta tornado outbreak, and second deadliest behind a later F4 tornado the same day.
It remains the fifth-deadliest tornado to affect the U.S. state of Mississippi, behind the 1840 Great Natchez Tornado, the 1936 tornado in Tupelo, the 1971 tornado in Cary, and the 1966 series of four tornadoes in Jackson. It is one of just four F5 tornadoes recorded in Mississippi since 1950. [1]
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The Great Natchez tornado hit Natchez, Mississippi, on Thursday, May 7, 1840.The tornado was the second-deadliest tornado in United States history; at least 317 people were killed and at least 109 were injured.
The tornado left Missouri as it crossed the Mississippi River to a point north of Rockwood, Illinois. All deaths occurred at scattered points across rural areas in Illinois. Two fatalities occurred in the Shiloh Hill–Campbell Hill vicinity. Several homes lost roofs near Sunfield—later ravaged by an F5 tornado on December 18, 1957. In all ...
List of crossings of the Lower Mississippi River – crossings south of the Ohio River This page was last edited on 22 March 2022, at 21:08 (UTC). Text is available ...
On the season finale of "River Monsters," Jeremy Wade traveled to Guyana to investigate the so-called "water mama." According to locals, the mysterious creature was abducting people.