ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Storms producing tornadoes, damaging wind gusts, and hail up to the size of golf balls were moving through several southern states Friday night with widespread damage and injuries reported in Mississippi from a large tornado.
— ROLLING FORK, Miss. Storms producing tornadoes, damaging wind gusts, and hail up to the size of golf balls were moving through several southern states Friday night with widespread damage and injuries reported in Mississippi from a large tornado.
The National Weather Service in Jackson confirmed a tornado caused damage in Silver City and Rolling Fork and was still moving just before 9 p.m. into the northwest side of Tchula and along Highway 49.
The current Rolling Fork mayor, Eldridge Walker, told WLBT-TV he was unable to get out of his damaged home soon after the tornado hit the town because power lines were down. He said emergency responders were trying to take injured people to hospitals. He did not immediately know how many people had been hurt.
A former mayor of Rolling Fork, Fred Miller, told the television station a tornado blew the windows out of the back of his house.
“Heading to Vicksburg hospital with injured residents of Rolling Fork MS they need emergency personnel NOw,” storm chaser Reed Timmer posted on Twitter.
Earlier Friday a car was swept away and two passengers drowned in southwestern Missouri during torrential rains that were part of a severe weather system. Authorities said six young adults were in the vehicle that was swept away as the car tried to cross a bridge over a flooded creek in the town of Grovespring.
