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During the morning hours of April 24, 2010, a massive and long tracked tornado struck the southern side of Yazoo City, Ebenezer, Durant, and Hesterville in Mississippi, causing 10 fatalities and injuring a further 146 people during its 149 miles path.
When completed, the Yazoo Headwater Project will protect 1,209,000 acres (4,890 km 2) of land against flooding and will partially protect another 303,000 acres (1,230 km 2). Benefits of the Headwater Project are reduced flooding around the cities of Greenwood, Yazoo City, Belzoni, and other smaller communities within the Yazoo River Basin.
The tornado continued moving through residential areas on the southeast side of Yazoo City, heavily damaging or demolishing numerous homes. The tornado continued northeast through rural eastern Yazoo and southern Holmes Counties, causing intense tree damage and damaging or destroying a number of rural residences. Whole swaths of trees were ...
Yazoo City is located 40 mi (64 km) northwest of Jackson at the junctions of U.S. Routes 49, 49E, and 49W, and MS Highways 3, 16, and 149, on the banks of the Yazoo River, near the Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. U.S. Route 49W provides a fairly direct link between Yazoo City and Belzoni.
Yazoo City, MS, May 6, 2010 -- Utility services are being restored after tornado damage from the deadly April 24 storm. FEMA Public Assistance funds may pay a portion of restoration cost under PA Catagory F. George Armstrong/FEMA: Camera manufacturer: NIKON CORPORATION: Camera model: NIKON D300: Author: George Armstrong: Exposure time: 1/400 ...
The Yazoo Backwater Area in the Mississippi Delta north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, experienced both record flood stages and record duration of flooding during the winter, spring, and summer of 2019. Portions of Warren , Issaquena , Sharkey , Yazoo , Humphreys , and Washington Counties were flooded.
The shared flood plain of the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers. Despite the name, this region is not the delta of the Mississippi River.The shifting river delta at the mouth of the Mississippi on the Gulf Coast lies some 300 miles south of this area in Louisiana, and is referred to as the Mississippi River Delta.
In an unrelated flood at the same time, on Good Friday (15 April 1927), 15 inches (380 mm) of rain fell in New Orleans in 18 hours. [10] This far exceeded the City's rainwater pumping system, and up to 4 feet (1.2 m) of water flooded some parts of the city. This local rain related flood was not connected to the Mississippi River flooding.