JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - National Weather Service survey teams say the tornado that killed nine people in Winston County also destroyed or damaged hundreds of buildings and uprooted and snapped thousands of trees, stripping the bark from others on its 35.5-mile path.
A report on the Jackson office’s webpage says winds up to 185 mph wiped several homes and apartments from their slabs, collapsed industrial buildings, destroyed chicken houses and heavily damaged hundreds of buildings. The path was up to three-quarters of a mile wide, and the tornado varied from EF2 to EF4.
Reports are incomplete on the EF3 tornado that killed a Rankin County woman and an EF1 twister with 105-mph winds that left a 10-mile track northwest of Utica.
Meteorologist Daniel Lamb said survey teams rated two other tornadoes EF1. One was north of Bolton in Hinds County and one southeast of Vicksburg.
Lamb said damage across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg in Madison Parish, La., was from straight winds rather than a twister.
He said survey teams will continue their work Thursday.
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