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A state of emergency declared by President Joe Biden means federal funding will be made available to the areas hardest hit by the storm - but local officials fear that further extreme conditions could soon be on the way.

ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Rescuers raced Saturday to search for survivors and help hundreds of people left homeless after a powerful tornado cut a

Rolling Fork, Mississippi, resident Barbara Christopher and her family invested in a storm shelter in the 1980s after a storm damaged their roof. Four decades later, a violent EF4 tornado destroyed their home, with Barbara and her husband Charles losing nearly everything. "You always see stuff like this on TV, ‘Oh that's just terrible,' it is," Christopher told AccuWeather National Reporter Bill Wadell. "It is terrible." Christopher was one of many Rolling Fork re...

Help began pouring into one of the poorest regions of the U.S. after a deadly tornado tore a path of destruction for more than an hour across a long swath of Mississippi, even as furious new storms Sunday struck across the Deep South.

The Mississippi Delta tornado death toll has risen amid the threat of more storms in the region.

More severe weather could be on its way to the American state of Mississippi following the tornadoes which killed 26 people, the governor has warned. Governor Tate Reeves said significant risks remained in parts of the state. Hundreds of people have been displaced in the wake of the tornadoes which tore through Mississippi and Alabama on Friday night. The mayor of one of the worst affected towns said he had …

Churches in the MS Delta town of Rolling Fork gathered the first Sunday after a devastating tornado in various ways. Some had no sanctuary to meet in.

Tornadoes. heres a look at the timing again. those storms are going to develop an eastern texas pushing into louisiana, but eventually they are going to spread over into mississippi, alabama and eventually into georgia as we make our way through the rest of the day, and, unfortunately, yes that does include the areas that were just hit on friday night. one of the other concerns is also going to be rain because fred, its multiple waves here and multiple days so that ground is already saturated, a...

The day after violent winds, rain, and rubble ripped through parts of the Mississippi Delta causing at least 25 deaths in its 100-mile destruction path, several Mid-South rescue crews were enroute to respond to Friday night’s tornado.

Search and recovery crews resumed digging through the debris of flattened and battered homes, commercial buildings, and municipal offices after hundreds of people were displaced.