The National Weather Service in Memphis, after assessing the storm’s damage for several hours, confirmed it was a single tornado that swept through parts of Tipton County, reaching winds as high as 95 mph, resulting in the EF-1 rating.
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A volunteer with Eight Days of Hope helps clean-up efforts along
King s Highway in southern Lee County on Tuesday, May 4, 2021,
following a series of tornadic storms that cut a path of
destruction through Northeast Mississippi on Sunday night.
Nonprofits like Eight Days of Hope and the local Red Cross had
volunteers on the ground helping with recovery efforts as soon as
the winds died down.
TUPELO • Disaster response agencies went to work immediately helping hard-hit communities in the aftermath of Sunday s tornadic storms.
Eight Days of Hope, a local faith-based organization that serves those in need after natural disasters, was in the hardest hit areas of Tupelo on Monday afternoon at 1 p.m., planning their response efforts immediately in the hours following the initial storm. Volunteers with the organization helped clean debris, removed trees and stepped in where needed alongside Elvis Presley Drive in Tupelo and affected a
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Vickie Savell looks at the remains of her new mobile home early Monday, May 3, 2021, in Yazoo County, Miss. Multiple tornadoes were reported across Mississippi on Sunday, causing some damage but no immediate word of injuries. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
YAZOO CITY, Miss. – Severe storms spawning multiple tornadoes moved across the South on Monday, damaging homes and uprooting trees from Mississippi to West Virginia. A tornado spotted in Atlanta forced thousands to seek shelter, and one man was killed when a falling tree brought power lines onto his vehicle.
The motorist was pronounced dead after fire crews cut him from the vehicle in Douglasville, Georgia, west of Atlanta, Douglas County spokesman Rick Martin told reporters. And in middle Georgia, 55-year-old Carla Harris was killed after a tree fell onto her Bonaire home, Houston County emergency officials said.