Please purchase a subscription to continue reading. A large tree was downed on a home, with additional tree limbs snapped in the area. That was like their entire budget before, Erin recalls. God had his hand on us.". Moving NE at 50MPH#mswx pic.twitter.com/XPGh0q8r9W, Joseph Neubauer (@JNeubauerWx) April 12, 2020, catastrophic damage 6 NNW Laurel, MS @spann @simpsonwhnt @NWSJacksonMS @ActionJacksonWX pic.twitter.com/HSFJ3dA34f, astro met (@DualDoppler) April 12, 2020. When the sun is shining, people think we just sit around. Progress slow 1 year after Laurel tornado. However, we are finally seeing development, she wrote. One double-wide mobile home was rolled off its plot and destroyed, resulting in two fatalities. Chance of rain 70%. About 135 structures were damaged, said Paul Sheffield, director of the Jones County Emergency Operations Center. It was on the ground for an hour and 50 minutes and had a peak width of 400yd (370m). 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But the hits kept coming: the Laurel Fire Department responded to a report of smoke coming from the schools gym in April. That same desire grew in Dr. Leander Bridges II, filling big shoes as principal at Oak Park Elementary today. The storm was a major plotline through Home Town Season 4. The following morning, the storms propagated eastward into Georgia, where a few additional tornadoes occurred before the outbreak came to an end. One of those that lived in the home is in critical condition. Poor. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.. Mostly cloudyisolated thunderstorms developing overnight. One large building lost a substantial portion of its metal roof, and sustained collapse of brick facade. This is Highway 35. pic.twitter.com/NXrVvwMDCi, Chelsey Sellars (@ChelseyOnTV) April 12, 2020. U kunt op elk moment uw keuzes wijzigen door naar Uw privacy-instellingen te gaan. One home had its roof entirely removed, with bricks blown off its west-facing wall and windows shattered as well. This video was recorded in downtown Laurel, and captures sirens warning residents to seek shelter. During the outbreak, the National Weather Service issued several PDS tornado warnings as well as a rare tornado emergency for Alexandria. Most of the damage done this time last year was classified as minor to major, whereas Soso was devastated with major destruction in the EF-4 twister that hit it just a few months later. During Monday nights season finale, the couple is revisiting one of the houses badly damaged by the natural disaster and starting over on a renovation project they had previously finished. Tornado touches down in Soso, Mississippi. This interactive map, which contains data from January 1950 to December 31, 2022, pinpoints where a cyclone touched down and traces its path of destruction. Follow your favorite high school teams and players, Explore and purchase photos of your local teams, See top plays & highlights of the best high school sports, Fall Laurel Golden Tornadoes Varsity Football Season. https://news.yahoo.com/video-shows-apparent-tornado-ground-215005709.html The tornado was initially weak, causing minor EF0 to EF1 tree and roof damage in DeRidder. Extensive tree damage was observed. According to the Wayne County EMA, tornado damage was reported near Highway 98 between Laurel and Waynesboro. The initial tornado warning for Wayne County was issued at 12:00 p.m. The EMA reported two homes and three chicken houses were damaged by the tornado. Metal roofing was torn off of a three-story motel along Jefferson street as well. The Nora Davis Magnet school also lost much of its roof in this area. Several structures were damaged, some by fallen trees. On Easter Sunday, he texted his parents to warn them about an approaching tornado. While the storms must first pass before a full damage report can be confirmed, according to Washington Post meteorologist Matthew Capucci, debris from these twisters may be falling in Choctaw County, Alabama, which is 35 miles away from where the first tornado which touched down. Instead, spin begets spin meaning vortices of low pressure, like tornadoes, often have smaller whirls embedded within them. Another home sustained major roof damage, outbuildings were damaged or destroyed, numerous large trees were snapped or uprooted, and two people sustained minor injuries in the Sandersville area. High 82F. You can find out more and change our default settings with Cookies Settings. The cake captures the weirdness that often accompanies the largest tornadoes. But if you walk at the right pace the wrong way, you can actually remain in place, staying still in comparison to your surroundings. You learn something new with every disaster, Sheiffield said. Debris could be seen strewn across the campus and into a nearby electrical substation. Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the series of storms that followed, the City Beautiful and its neighboring communities on a path to Sandersville are still recovering. Contact reporter Laurel Thrailkill at lthrailkill@gannett.comor on Twitter. Loose tin is still visible in limbs above a blue roof here and there, and large trees are still down in yards and on city property. Residents are advised to stay home, as theres been major structural damage and major roads have been blocked off. Welcome! RELATED VIDEO: 'Home Town' Couple Ben and Erin Napiers Unbelievable Journey to HGTV Stardom: 'We Never Expected This'. You would see past graduates pictures on the wall and every kid in this community they had a mom, a dad, a grandparent, or somebody on their wall, said Jackson. In higher-end tornadoes, steel-reinforced concrete structures are frequently the only aboveground structures that remain. Tree trunks were snapped, and a home had most of its roof ripped off. Continuing to the northeast through Alexandria, the tornado narrowed and weakened to EF1 strength, damaging trees and power poles as it crossed Bayou Rapides Road. And Gary will have a home to come back to very soon, Erin adds. Doppler radar even detected clouds of debris suspended high in the rotating supercell thunderstorms associated with the debris fallout. Pizza acrobatics is an actual sport. Isolated severe wind gusts and hail will be possible. These were taken in Covington County. Published: Nov. 29, 2022 at 11:38 AM PST. -- A tornado wrecked schools, businesses and hundreds of homes Saturday on a 20-mile swath of devastation through six southeast Mississippi communities. Lightweight objects, especially paper, can often surf atop a storms winds for extended distances. Tornadoes arent a uniform, cylindrical mass of fluid orbiting a common core. Harold Russell, superintendent of the citys inspection department, said one business, Trustmark Bank off 16th Avenue, was destroyed in the storm. It was a lease-to-own situation for someone who needed it, Ben explains in the clip. Andrew Phillips and his family survived the destructive #Laurel, MS tornado because they took shelter in their safe room. Several trees were snapped, a mobile home was slid off its support about 3ft (0.91m) and had its roof damaged, and an irrigation pivot was damaged. This house was special. As of Nov. 30, hurricane season is over. The warning issued earlier for Lauderdale County remains in effect until 8:30 a.m.At 7:58 a.m.,a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near Marion, moving east at 50 mph. Winds S at 15 to 25 mph. We hope that you continue to enjoy our free content. For more recent tornadoes, clicking deeper provides more details, damage estimates and whether someone was injured or killed in the storm. A few electrical transmission trusses were collapsed, and the Wade Services manufacturing plant off Eastview Drive took a direct hit and experienced a total collapse of its structures. 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On 8/26, the Laurel varsity football team won their home non-conference game against Meridian (MS) by a score of 47-27. [3] The event happened to take place on the same date of another outbreak in a similar area 19 years earlier. A few of these frame homes sustained collapse of exterior walls as well. A tornado touched down Sunday night near Yatesville in west central Georgia. Credit: Jason Matheson via Storyful. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted as well. If you walk with the motion of the escalator, your compound velocity is even stronger. It was part of a tornado outbreak that endangered parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. HGTV recently announced that they have ordered 16 more episodes of the fan-favorite series, and Season 5 will premiere in early 2021. Jackson said the second round of severe weather is associated with an incoming cold front. Jackson wears several hats these days, serving as principal at Laurel Education Center, assistant athletic director of the Laurel School District, and voice of the Golden Tornadoes. The National Weather Service reported structural, roof and fence damage in Newton caused by a tornado Tuesday morning. new listings and more in Laurel MS. How is the housing market in Laurel? Near the end of the tornado's path, a small mobile home was shifted slightly off its plot while a small and well-built block outbuilding was largely demolished. As storms strike, this interactive map is your guide to impacts and damage reports coming into National Weather Service stations nationwide. from 2 miles southwest of Laurel (5:59 p.m.) to. If youre looking for levity, look no further. A significant severe weather and tornado outbreak affected the Southern United States between December 1617, 2019. Sirens wailed in Laurel, Mississippi, on Wednesday, March 17, as the area was placed under a tornado warning by the National Weather Service. In addition to this, the Storm Prediction Center issued six tornado watches for the outbreak. Please considersubscribingto support local journalism. Hope everyone is okay. Three people were injured. [5][6] In their first day 2 outlook, the SPC introduced an Enhanced risk across portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. NFL Draft: CA produces five first-rounders. Both cities are under an enhanced risk of severe storms. An insulation company sustained damage to its metal storage building, where some walls were blown out. The affected areas include Jefferson Davis, Covington, Jones, Wayne, Marion, Lamar, Forest, Perry, Jasper, and Greene counties. The F-scale of damage will vary in the destruction area; therefore, the highest value of the F-scale is recorded for each event. We can just about have a tornado every month of the year.. A Piggly Wiggly grocery store also sustained minor EF0 roof and exterior damage in this area as well, and numerous trees and a few power poles were downed. People doubt her as a female roofer: Were proving them wrong every day, She rescues baby squirrels: Theyre quite destructive. Thats what started 2020. Radar shows widespread airborne debris lifted thousands of feet into the air by two long track tornadoes in southern MS. #mswx #weather #tornado pic.twitter.com/3J0bfAfsFp, Aaron Kawczk (@AaronKawczk) April 12, 2020. A hurricane watcher's guide to the latest track and model forecasts. Numerous mobile homes were thrown and destroyed at a mobile home sales business along Ross Lane, while nearby homes sustained significant roof damage. In Laurel, MS the tornado tore apart this house but left the freshly baked cake on the counter untouched. Keep Louisiana and Mississippi in your prayers, grab a chainsaw and help your neighbors in need. #mswx #TornadoDamage pic.twitter.com/OX8n7McUgj. LAUREL, Miss. Low 69F. Walters-Slay wrote in a press release that repairs on the Nora Davis campus have been slower than expected in the wake of the vandalism and COVID-19 pandemic. [63], The tornado then reached low-end EF3 intensity as it exited Laurel and crossed Interstate 59, snapping and uprooting numerous trees, and toppling several large metal truss transmission towers to the ground. 2 deaths A strong tornado significantly damaged several mobile homes. Maximum heat index forecast for next 7 days. Another tornado-warned storm just southwest of this one, taking a similar path., Photo from @EvanBuWeather of trees covering I-59 near Vossburg, MS. #mswx @NWSJacksonMS pic.twitter.com/ESPDwodsu5, Taylor Kanost (@WxKanost) April 12, 2020, Senior Accuweather meteorologist Frank Strait couldnt believe there were two massive tornados so close together. He had been watching local severe weather coverage on television and monitoring radar right before his parents house was struck. Updated daily from May 1 through Sept. 30. The city was in clean up mode on Tuesday. Many neighbors said this is the worst storm damage that they have seen in years. You know, most of the time whenever we have bad weather, it kind of goes north of Laurel, out in the western part of the county or south, explained Stacey Pickering, head of the Mississippi Veterans Affairs Board. JACKSON, Miss. 04/13/202 Laurel MS Aerial views of tornado damage in the Florida is in a scramble to re-energize the state as quickly as possible. Several sheds were heavily damaged. A large farm outbuilding was collapsed and another outbuilding had its roof damaged. Current data typically are recorded at 15- to 60-minute intervals. I love them., survived their entire home being reduced to rubble. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. The good Lord had his hand on us, Wade said. Its sort of like being on an escalator. A small outdoor metal shed was damaged, and numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. 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