Air Quality. Damage to many trees and a few homes occurred as it continued northeast across Highway 45 and into Alabama where Highway 18 meets the state line near Hinton, Ala. Two mobile homes in southern Clarke County were rolled and severely damaged, and two single family homes in the county experienced severe roof damage. A structure sustained loss of its metal roof and collapse of brick facade in this area as well. The tornado then regained EF1 strength as it crossed into Choctaw County, Alabama, downing trees and destroying a mobile home. Northeast of Shubuta, numerous trees were snapped and uprooted at EF1 strength as the tornado moved through rural areas. Race to become the first school to win 1,000 games could be decided in this decade as Valdosta, Male close in on 950. Given the general alignment of the cold front and wind shear aloft, the SPC was uncertain early on December16 over whether numerous discrete supercells would exist in the highest threat area. Additional rainfall amounts of twoto threeinches arepossible in the warned area. God had his hand on us.". WATCH: Star-Studded SNL Cast Pays Tribute to Hal Willner. Tornadoes are the definition of meteorological caprice. A house blown onto a street, an untouched cake and photos carried 100 miles: Tornadoes leave bizarre scenes in their wake. A home suffered roof damage, and a nearby outbuilding was heavily damaged. By late evening, isolated supercells were overtaken by the squall line, reducing the significant tornado threat. "We're also not ruling out tornadoes.". The tornado then crossed Louisiana Highway 28 and heavily damaged Johnny Downs sports complex along the north side of the highway. Both cities are under an enhanced risk of severe storms. READ NEXT: WATCH: Star-Studded SNL Cast Pays Tribute to Hal Willner, WATCH: Two Massive Tornados Touch Down In Southern Mississippi, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. MaxPreps is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Another tornadic supercell is passing by close to the NW #mswx @NWSJacksonMS pic.twitter.com/vJ4JmgLhq6, Quincy Vagell (@stormchaserQ) April 12, 2020, Jefferson Davis County in south Mississippi was just hit by TWO catastrophic tornadoes. You learn something new with every disaster, Sheiffield said. Power outages have reached17,584 as of 7:48 a.m. A tornado was confirmed near Collins at 7:26 a.m., Weather Service officials reported. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. The city was in clean up mode on Tuesday. Many neighbors said this is the worst storm damage that they have seen in years. You know, most of the time whenever we have bad weather, it kind of goes north of Laurel, out in the western part of the county or south, explained Stacey Pickering, head of the Mississippi Veterans Affairs Board. Some trees fell onto houses and cars as well. Residents in both mobile homes received advance warning of the tornado and were able to shelter in another location before it hit. In addition, advection of drier air aloft was predicted to inhibit convective development until later in the day. [63], The tornado then reached low-end EF3 intensity as it exited Laurel and crossed Interstate 59, snapping and uprooting numerous trees, and toppling several large metal truss transmission towers to the ground. Doppler radar even detected clouds of debris suspended high in the rotating supercell thunderstorms associated with the debris fallout. [63], Maintaining EF2 strength, the strong tornado then entered the west side of Alexandria. Hundreds of trees were snapped by this high-end EF2 tornado, and several homes were severely damaged and sustained roof loss. Trees were damaged as well. Mississippi weather:As spring arrives, what to know about the 2022 tornado season. The system willbring severe weather to much of eastern Mississippi, especially to locations along and south ofI-20, according to the National Weather Service in Jackson. Doors and windows had to be boarded up. : @GeraldHarrisTV & @photogBullard pic.twitter.com/u4a9gffpTb, Jacob Lanier (@JacobLanierWx) April 12, 2020. Updated: Mar. On Dec. 16, 2019, the EF-2 storm drove through the center of the city, wiping out at least two A small outdoor metal shed was damaged, and numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. A nearby mobile home was rolled and destroyed as well. Thank you for reading! At 12:20 pm, the National Weather Services Mobile office tweeted that a tornado was moving through Mississippis Wayne County. Drivers reported a possible tornado shortly before on Highway 84, which passes between Laurel and Wayne County. KDGX Super-Res Velocity Tilt 1 6:28 PM EDT #mswx #soso @weathernetwork pic.twitter.com/ym5UYHk0iM, Jaclyn Whittal (@jwhittalTWN) April 12, 2020. We hope that you continue to enjoy our free content. WebTornadoes. WebFall Laurel Golden Tornadoes Varsity Football Season Welcome to the Laurel Football team feed. A strong storm that beganto move across Mississippi overnightwill continue through Tuesdayafternoon in Mississippi, bringing the possibility for tornadoes, high winds, flash flooding and heavy rain. All rights reserved. Vandals also were believed to have clogged sinks to flood another building. I went to school here from kindergarten to 10th grade and it was an all-Black school, Laurel School Board vice president Nancy Breland said. Those chaotic effects brought on by subvortex motions in tornadoes can lead to highly irregular damage patterns. Were really disappointed that someone would do something like this, Laurel School District Spokeswoman Lacey Walters-Slay said. Massive nearly mile wide wedge earlier as it crossed i59 near Hieldeberg MS pic.twitter.com/1ID3Xs7yff, Aaron Rigsby (@AaronRigsbyOSC) April 12, 2020, Meteorologist Brad Maushart tweeted, Looks to be a direct hit to Soso in Jones Co., just north of Laurel. Track all current severe weather warnings, watches and advisories for Jackson, Mississippi and other areas in the United States on the interactive weather alerts page. Jerel Wades parents live in Laurel, Miss. Most every other house we worked on, theyre okay, she continues. The Laurel Boys Football season preview, complete with returning player information and program history is available. LAUREL, Miss. A hurricane watcher's guide to the latest track and model forecasts. The Nora Davis Magnet school also lost much of its roof in this area. [7] By the late morning of December16, a Moderate risk area was introduced from eastern Louisiana through central Mississippi. One room on the side of the house, complete with its canopy awnings still affixed above (or, since the house was inverted, below) the window, was suspended in midair as the home rested on its peaked roof. In a nearby residential area, the tornado weakened to EF2 strength as large trees were downed, and homes had large portions of their roofs torn off. [4] This 15% delineation area was shifted southwestward the following day and translated to a broad Slight risk for severe weather on December14. (WLBT) - Two homes and three chicken houses were damaged as a result of the tornado that struck Wayne County Wednesday. Then in 1970 integration came and it was a cultural shock.. Breland isnt the only one who once walked the halls of Oak Park Elementary School in Laurel, and still stands strong within the district. An updated list of roads flooded in Hattiesburg is as follows: The city of Hattiesburg reported some roadsareflooded due to heavy rain: Bay Street and Williams Street at E.Hardy Street is also flooded. The Season 4 finale of Home Town airs Monday, June 8 at 9 pm ET/PT on HGTV. Credit: Jason Matheson via Storyful. During the outbreak, the National Weather Service issued several PDS tornado warnings as well as a rare tornado emergency for Alexandria. A Michigan tornado in 1956 blew out all the windows in a mans home but left his tax return resting on his piano. Jokingly, I tell people we have two seasons: hurricane season and severe weather season. We can just about have a tornado every month of the year.. The roof of a hotel was lifted up and dropped back down onto the building, and a semi-truck and flatbed trailer carrying automobiles was flipped over and dragged. WebLaurel, MS 39443 1,865 sq.ft 2 baths 3 beds $232,000 #5 Wansley Rd Laurel, MS 39443 2,444 sq.ft 2 baths 3 beds $270,000 #6 Queensburg Ave Laurel, MS 39440 8,164 sq.ft - baths - beds $25,000 Check out more offers near Laurel, MS . Photos and radar video shared on Twitter reveal one of the tornados touched down in Soso, Mississippi. Sirens wailed in Laurel, Mississippi, on Wednesday, March 17, as the area was placed under a tornado warning by the National Weather Service. Trees were snapped and uprooted. Thats the house that me and my three siblings grew up in, Wade said in an interview. It crossed Highway 74 in Upson County, actually blowing a nearby home into the street. Weather Prediction Center forecasts the probability that rainfall will exceed flash flood guidance within 25 miles of a point. A camping trailer was overturned. A flash flood warning remains in place for Greene, Perry and Wayne counties until 3:30 p.m.;Marion, Forrest andLamar countiesuntil 2:15 p.m. andPike, Amite and Walthall counties until 12:30 p.m. A tornado watch remains in place for George, Harrison, Jackson and Stone counties until 2 p.m. All other tornado watches for the state have been expired. Instead, spin begets spin meaning vortices of low pressure, like tornadoes, often have smaller whirls embedded within them. The active tornado warning wasnt lifted until 6:15 p.m. local time. Why do we tell you to get inside an interior room toward the center of your home when a #tornado is passing through your town? When they heard the sounds, they got into a small little bathroom, Wade said. JACKSON, Miss. While the storms must first pass before a full damage report can be confirmed, according to Washington Post meteorologist Matthew Capucci, debris from these twisters may be falling in Choctaw County, Alabama, which is 35 miles away from where the first tornado which touched down. One home lost a garage and outbuilding. Follow your favorite high school teams and players, Explore and purchase photos of your local teams, See top plays & highlights of the best high school sports, Fall Laurel Golden Tornadoes Varsity Football Season. On 10/21, the Laurel varsity football team won their home conference game against West Jones (Laurel, MS) by a score of 28-21. An outbuilding was collapsed, numerous shingles were ripped from a house, the metal roofing and siding was removed from a metal carport, and trees were sporadically uprooted. Wades own home, about five miles to the south, barely received a drop of rain. A sports complex sustained damage to its fence and bleachers. Residents of the area were under order to take shelter from the storm as the two tornadic supercells followed on nearly identical paths through Southern Mississippi. Data shows the location and intensity of drought across the country. This man has won 7 world championships for it. Its sort of like being on an escalator. That was like their entire budget before, Erin recalls. This story will be updated throughout the day. It touched down over the Hesler-Noble airfield and quickly moved northeast across Hillcrest Drive and into downtown Laurel, producing a continuous path of snapped and uprooted trees, broken tree limbs and minor structural damage to homes and businesses. In November of 1916, one tornado carried a canceled check to Palmyra, Neb., after striking Great Bend, Kan. Thats a distance of 210 miles. Discrete supercells developed in the early morning on December 16 and moved northeast, spawning multiple strong, long-tracked tornadoes in cities such as Alexandria and in Laurel before congealing into an eastward-moving squall line. A couple of sheds were collapsed and some shingles from ripped from a home as well. Southern Mississippi was ravaged by tornado-producing storms on Easter Sunday just before 5 p.m. local time, with two huge twisters touching down just miles apart. To learn about Deborah Hyde who was a surgeon, to learn about Ralph Boston, who was a gold-medal Olympian, Watts said. A tornado warning is in effect until 7:15 a.m. for Lake, and 7:45 a.m. Newton, Hickory and Chunky. You have permission to edit this article. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted, and multiple power poles were broken. pic.twitter.com/ZFneQzQfuU. Its been one year since a tornado cut a piece from the heart of Laurel. The tornado reached EF2 intensity again as moved through the eastern part of Laurel, where a house had its roof torn off and other homes sustained lesser roof damage. Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the series of storms that followed, the City Beautiful and its neighboring communities on a path to Sandersville are still recovering. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your device and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. Past the airport, the tornado caused EF0 to EF1 damage at the Dixie Golf Club, where trees and tree limbs were snapped and fencing was blown over. All the EOC can do now is plan. Folks, if you are warned a second time and you hear sirens go a second time, its not an error and the second one could be as bad as the first., Two strong tornadoes on both sides of US-49 in Mississippi at 4:55PM, The rightward storm impacting Soso, MS and is moving NE at 45MPH towards Heidelberg/Sandersville, MS, The leftward storm looks to move just north of Bassfield (thank goodness). A staple built specifically for African Americans during segregation in Laurel, Oak Park Elementary. At least 19,473 customers are without power across the state as of 8:29 a.m. A tornado warning is in place until 9 a.m. for Wayne County. Another home sustained major roof damage, outbuildings were damaged or destroyed, numerous large trees were snapped or uprooted, and two people sustained minor injuries in the Sandersville area. 12. A tornado touched down Sunday night near Yatesville in west central Georgia. The tornado moved along a northeastward path through the southwest side of Laurel, downing trees and causing minor roof damage to homes. First all Black school in Laurel during segregation continues its legacy in 2023, Suspect charged with manslaughter for Bassfield shooting over the weekend, Paradise Pier opens this weekend in Biloxi, Hattiesburg police seek publics help to find runaway teen, Pine Belt Foundation honors provides honors, Columbia police release report of 2022 crime statistics. Jackson wears several hats these days, serving as principal at Laurel Education Center, assistant athletic director of the Laurel School District, and voice of the Golden Tornadoes. The first signs of organized severe weather came on December12, when the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) outlined a day 5 risk area across portions of the Mid-South and lower Ohio River Valley. One person was injured. 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