1 dead, nearly 2 dozen injured after multiple tornadoes sweep through Mississippi

Multiple tornadoes swept done Mississippi overnight, sidesplitting 1 and injuring astir 2 dozen, officials said Monday.

State exigency workers were inactive moving with counties to measure the harm from storms successful which precocious temperatures and hail successful immoderate areas accompanied tornadoes. The decease and injuries were reported by officials successful eastbound Mississippi's Jasper County.

The small, agrarian municipality of Louin bore the brunt of the damage. Drone footage and photos showed wide expanses of debris-covered terrain, decimated homes and mangled trees. At slightest 1 idiosyncratic was lifted from the wreckage successful a stretcher.

Most of the radical injured successful Jasper County, including the idiosyncratic who died, were transported to the South Central Regional Medical Center successful Laurel betwixt 2 and 3 a.m., said Becky Collins, a spokeswoman for the facility. About 20 radical had bruises and cuts. Most were successful unchangeable information Monday morning.

Eric Carpenter, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service successful Jackson, said an unseasonably beardown pitchy watercourse blew done the area. A tornado emerged adjacent Louin earlier traveling astatine slightest 7 miles (11 kilometers) southbound to Bay Springs.

Tornadoes typically deed Mississippi successful aboriginal to mid-spring. Carpenter called the timing of the tornadoes, on with persistent thunder and hail arsenic good arsenic precocious temperatures, "a precise antithetic situation."

"This is simply a full antithetic crippled here," Carpenter said. "What we would typically spot successful March and April, we're seeing successful June."

On March 24, a vicious tornado carved a way of demolition done parts of occidental and bluish Mississippi, sidesplitting astatine slightest 26 and damaging thousands of homes. Some towns successful the rural, poverty-stricken Mississippi Delta look a daunting task to rebuild.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Monday's tornadoes besides struck Rankin County, which borders the superior metropolis of Jackson. Emergency crews were doing hunt and rescue missions and harm assessments, deploying drones successful immoderate areas due to the fact that they were intolerable to scope by conveyance owed to downed powerfulness lines.

In a Monday greeting quality release, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said much than 49,000 homes successful cardinal Mississippi were without power. Tens of thousands of radical successful Hinds County, the astir populous country of the state, were inactive without powerfulness Monday greeting aft precocious winds pummeled the authorities aboriginal Friday.

Reeves said the authorities is opening bid centers and shelters for those displaced by the terrible weather.