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Federal funding still aiding local governments and homeowners for June tornadoes

Thursday, December 14 by Staff Report

MADISON, Miss. Six months after the June 14-19 severe storms and tornadoes in Mississippi, federal support is assisting homeowners, renters, businesses and local governments with recovery. More than $6 million in federal support has been approved by FEMA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)...

Leake and Neshoba Among Counties Getting FEMA Assistance for June Tornadoes

Saturday, August 12 by Randy Bell

Leake, Neshoba and 14 other counties will get federal assistance in covering the cost of debris removal following tornadoes in June. The White House has approved Mississippi's request for public assistance for those counties and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. The Mississippi Emergency...

State Requests Disaster Declaration For June Tornadoes

Tuesday, July 25 by Randy Bell

Leake, Neshoba and 14 other counties would be reimbursed for most of what they spent in cleaning up debris left behind by some of last month's tornadoes-- if the White House approves the state’s request for a major disaster declaration. Malary White with the...

Tornadoes Hit North MS, One Dead

Saturday, April 1 by Randy Bell

A tornado which hit Pontotoc County early Saturday has left one person dead and four others injured. And there's been damage across Mississippi, some of it at the Cooper Tire plant in Tupelo. The National Weather Service confirmed several tornadoes as they moved through...

NWS Confirms 11 Tornadoes, Kosy Storm Responsible for Two of Them

Saturday, December 3 by Randy Bell

Even though the thunderstorm supercell which moved directly over Kosciusko Tuesday night didn't produce a tornado in the city, it did so later in the evening as it tracked to the northeast. The National Weather Service says the same supercell was responsible for an...

Damage Reported After Tornadoes Hit Mississippi

Wednesday, November 30 by Randy Bell

Severe storms including tornadoes swept across Mississippi last night damaging homes in several counties and knocking out power to more than 11,000 customers. The National Weather Service says Lowndes County was among the hardest-hit areas with a grocery store and church damaged north of...

NWS: Two Local Tornadoes Confirmed

Friday, May 27 by Randy Bell

The National Weather Service has confirmed tornado touchdowns in Leake and Neshoba counties. An EF-0 tornado with top winds of 85 miles an hour hit west of Carthage Wednesday before moving into the city. The tin roof of a house was peeled back and...

NWS: 89 Tornadoes In Four Weeks

Thursday, April 21 by Randy Bell

After getting through January, February and the first three weeks of March without a single tornado in Mississippi, the state has been battered by 89 over a period of less than four weeks. That includes 27 tornadoes on March 22nd, 29 on March 30th,...

Two Tornadoes Confirmed In Winston County

Wednesday, April 20 by Randy Bell

The National Weather Service has now confirmed a total of 15 tornadoes from last Wednesday's outbreak of severe storms in Mississippi. Two of them were on the ground in Winston County at the same time. 0851 PM TORNADO ...

Three Tornadoes Confirmed In Attala County

Saturday, March 26 by Randy Bell

The National Weather Service has confirmed three tornado touchdowns in Attala County during the storms that moved through the state on March 22nd. All three were rated EF-1, one of them the same tornado that hit Goodman. NWS says that tornado tracked out...

Severe weather possible today, likely for tomorrow

Tuesday, March 16 by Breck Riley

Severe weather is possible today. According to the National Weather Service in Jackson, isolated severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour, and hail up to quarter size are possible across the entire area. A tornado can not be...

National Weather Service confirms 3 tornadoes hit Attala County Wednesday (Audio)

Friday, February 7 by Breck Riley

The National Weather Service in Jackson has confirmed that three tornadoes ripped through Attala County during Wednesday's storms. The storms that passed through Newport and south of McCool produced an EF-2 tornadoes. The tornado that touched down south of Ethel was classified as EF-1. Forecasters estimated that...

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