24 April 2010
Large Tornado Crosses Mississippi- Heavy Damage/Deaths
Posted by Dan Satterfield
The bottom circle is the storm producing a large tornado. This storm is now in Alabama. Another super cell is circled to the north in Western TN. Hi res visible Image from NASA GOES down link.
Reports of heavy damage in Mississippi continue to come in. Madison Parish and Yazoo City seem to be the hardest hit. There were reports of cars blown off the road along Interstate 55 in Central Miss. Update 6PM Huntsville time: 7 deaths in Yazoo City reported. Video shows widespread severe damage.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.