Satellite images show the small community of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, before and after Friday’s deadly tornado.
At least 26 people were killed and dozens were injured in Mississippi and Alabama when a monster storm, preliminarily rated as an EF-4 tornado, descended on the region.
Winds between 166 and 200 mph uprooted trees, flattened houses, sheared roofs off buildings and scattered mobile homes. Satellite images released by Maxar Technologies Sunday shows what Rolling Fork, Mississippi, looked like in Dec. 2022, left, and on March 26 after a tornado, right.A post office and the county clerk office on Walnut Street in Rolling Fork were severely battered by the EF-4 twister that tore through the area Friday.The tornado, which killed 26 people in two states, flatted entire subdivisions and uprooted trees, as seen in these satellite images.
The EF-4 tornado struck so quickly that the sheriff’s department hardly had time to set off sirens to alert the population, according to Rolling Fork Mayor Eldridge Walker.
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