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A series of at least four tornadoes hit the Southeastern United States during March 3-4, 1966. The worst event was a violent and long-lived F5 tornado, dubbed the Candlestick Park tornado after the name of a recently opened Jackson, Mississippi shopping center that was leveled by the storm. [2] The storm would bring catastrophic damage in ...
2023 Rolling Fork–Silver City tornado. Top: The tornado being illuminated by lightning during the night on March 24. On the evening of March 24, 2023, a large, violent and destructive multi-vortex wedge tornado struck the communities of Rolling Fork and Silver City, Mississippi, killing 17 people and injuring at least 165 others. [ 1][ 2][ 3 ...
An EF4 tornado tore through the western Mississippi town of Rolling Fork on Friday night, causing total destruction as it ripped through the small, tight-knit community. The outbreak of storms ...
The twister was first located over Rolling Fork, a town roughly 60 miles northwest of Jackson, Mississippi, and moving northeast at 50 miles per hour. " The damage in Rolling Fork, Mississippi is BAD.
The National Weather Service in Jackson said, ... Parts of central Mississippi are under a tornado warning until 6:45 p.m., including Rankin, Madison and Scott counties.
Jackson is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi.Along with Raymond, Jackson is one of two county seats for Hinds County.The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, a significant decline from 173,514, or 11.42%, since the 2010 census, representing the largest decline in population during the decade of any major U.S. city. [4]
At least one fatality has been confirmed, while another 25 were injured due to the tornado in the small town, located about 55 miles southeast of Jackson, Mississippi. The National Weather Service ...
March 3–4. On March 3, a supercell produced an extremely violent, exceptionally long-tracked F5 tornado that devastated parts of Jackson, Mississippi and Alabama. The tornado, dubbed the Candlestick Park Tornado (after the shopping center it leveled) killed 58 people and injured over 500 along its 202.5 mile long track.