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10 years ago today - EF-4 tornado strikes Yazoo City, Miss.
Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:43 pm
Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:43 pm
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NWS Jackson MS @NWSJacksonMS
10 years ago today, the Yazoo City EF-4 Tornado made its path of destruction starting in NE LA and ending in E MS, 149 miles later.
Today we remember the 10 lives that were lost and the dozens of people who were injured as those scars continue to heal.
NWS Jackson page on tornado
ETA: this was the widest tornado in the state of Mississippi (1.7 miles wide) until 2 weeks ago when it was topped by the Bassfield-Soso Easter Sunday EF-4 tornado (2.25 miles wide)
This post was edited on 4/24/20 at 12:49 pm
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Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:44 pm to rt3
You can still see the path it went right across 55 through the Yazoo exit...
Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:44 pm to rt3
Geez we are only a year out from a decade after the super outbreak.
Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:45 pm to rt3
I remember watching TWC coverage of that storm. It was clear what was heading towards Yazoo City.
Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:48 pm to rt3
Some risk today but nothing like that monster.
Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:49 pm to rt3
Do you follow @tornado_talk on Twitter? They post alot of "On this Day" stuff.
Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:50 pm to LegendInMyMind
edit I just added to the OP...
this Yazoo City tornado was the widest tornado on record to ever hit the state of Mississippi (1.7 miles wide) until 2 weeks ago when it was topped by the Bassfield-Soso Easter Sunday EF-4 tornado (2.25 miles wide)
this Yazoo City tornado was the widest tornado on record to ever hit the state of Mississippi (1.7 miles wide) until 2 weeks ago when it was topped by the Bassfield-Soso Easter Sunday EF-4 tornado (2.25 miles wide)
Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:50 pm to rt3
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2.25 miles wide
That is still almost unbelievable to me. Simply terrifying to imagine seeing that coming towards my home.
Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:52 pm to rt3
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2.25 miles wide
That is insane
I've come to really not like the month of April
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James Spann
@spann
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1h
ON THIS DATE IN 1908: A long track EF-4 tornado killed 35 across North Alabama from Dora in Walker County, to Sylvania in DeKalb County (over 100 miles). Fifteen people were killed and at least 150 were injured in Albertville (Marshall County) as half the town was destroyed.
This post was edited on 4/24/20 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:54 pm to rt3
Did Marcel Ledbetter survive ?
Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:56 pm to The Torch
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Did Marcel Ledbetter survive ?
Yep, but so did the Lynx.
Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:56 pm to MrLarson
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That is insane
I've come to really not like the month of April
that Bassfield-Soso tornado is now the 3rd widest tornado on record in the entire country
Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:59 pm to rt3
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that Bassfield-Soso tornado is now the 3rd widest tornado on record in the entire country
What two were wider?
Posted on 4/24/20 at 1:02 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Do you follow @tornado_talk on Twitter? They post alot of "On this Day" stuff.
probably should
I was looking for more info on Wednesday night's tornado
Lake Charles dragging their feet putting out some kind of info on it
Posted on 4/24/20 at 1:03 pm to LegendInMyMind
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What two were wider?
2013 El Reno, Okla. (2.75 miles - the 1 that killed Tim Samaras along with a few other storm chasers and seems to have changed storm chasing forever)
2004 Hallam, Neb. (2.5 miles)
ETA: the El Reno tornado damn near took the life of TWC's Mike Bettis
This post was edited on 4/24/20 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 4/24/20 at 1:08 pm to rt3
I wonder how multi-vortex tornadoes are classified? I've never thought about how they measure width on those type storms.
Posted on 4/24/20 at 1:15 pm to rt3
I don't know if you know, but The American Meteorological Society has made their entire journal collection free though the end of June. Go to the link below and click the + to browse and add journals of interest. There's enough there to read for years probably.
LINK
LINK
Posted on 4/24/20 at 1:15 pm to LegendInMyMind
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I wonder how multi-vortex tornadoes are classified? I've never thought about how they measure width on those type storms.
multi-vortex tornadoes are classified as 1 tornado if the NWS surveyors can see there's one common, parent center point
Posted on 4/24/20 at 1:16 pm to rt3
I remember the yahoo city tornado well...we had a hell of a mess in that town afterwards. One of the best restaurants in town was a pile of rubble on a slab
Posted on 4/24/20 at 1:19 pm to PrivatePublic
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Geez we are only a year out from a decade after the super outbreak.
the Tuscaloosa EF-4 that didn't miss the UA campus by all that much
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