Severe Storms

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Late-Spring Tornado Outbreak Tears Through Mississippi Valley, Displacing Thousands

A multi-day severe weather outbreak across the lower Mississippi Valley killed at least 14 people, leveled neighborhoods in three states and forced more than 4,200 residents into emergency shelters, officials said Friday.

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Tornado outbreak across Mississippi Valley leaves at least 14 dead, flattens Arkansas towns

A sprawling line of supercells tore through eastern Arkansas and western Tennessee overnight, killing at least 14 people and reducing parts of two small towns to debris fields, emergency officials said Thursday.

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Tornado Outbreak Sweeps Mississippi Delta as Rescue Crews Search Flattened Towns From Greenwood to Tuscaloosa

At least 31 people were killed and more than 200 injured after a violent tornado outbreak tore through the lower Mississippi Valley overnight Saturday into Sunday, leveling neighborhoods in Greenwood, Indianola and the western suburbs of Tuscaloosa and stretching emergency-response systems already drawn down by months of war-related federal redeployments.

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