Here’s a concise update on the 2011 Philadelphia, Mississippi tornado.
- What happened: An extremely powerful EF5 tornado tracked about 28 miles through Neshoba, Kemper, Winston, and Noxubee counties, near Philadelphia, MS, during the April 27, 2011 outbreak. It was the first EF5 of the historic 2011 Super Outbreak and caused three fatalities and eight injuries, with about $1.1 million in damage.[3][5]
- Context: This tornado was part of the multi-day Super Outbreak, the largest tornado outbreak on record, which included several other EF5 tornadoes on the same day.[5]
- Aftermath: State and federal emergency declarations followed, enabling funding and assistance for affected residents and communities.[3][5]
- Visuals and sources: You can find survivor footage and expert summaries in contemporary reports and archived pages; for a detailed summary, Wikipedia’s 2011 Philadelphia, Mississippi tornado page is a common reference, and NOAA’s Storm Events Database provides official event records.[9][3]
If you’d like, I can pull the latest updates or provide a short explainer visual (timeline or map) of the outbreak’s Mississippi tornado track.
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During the afternoon of April 27, 2011, a violent EF5 tornado touched down in eastern Mississippi, killing three people. Part of the historic 2011 Super Outbreak, the largest tornado outbreak on record, this was the first of four EF5 tornadoes to touch down that day and the first such storm in Mississippi since the 1966 Candlestick Park tornado. While on the ground for 30 minutes, it traveled along a 28.28-mile (45.51 km) path through four counties, leaving behind three deaths, eight injuries,...
wikipedia.nucleos.comNWS Jackson, MS April 26-27, 2011 Severe Weather Outbreak
www.weather.govEF5 tornado that touched down in eastern Mississippi, killing three people
www.wikidata.orgThe Storm Events Database contains records on various types of severe weather, as collected by NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS).
www.ncdc.noaa.govPhiladelphia, MS EF5 tornado videos in rough chronological order: At around the 1:45 mark in this video the incredible speed of the tornado is easy to see.... ^Tornado would have been at EF5 strength around the time of this video. I still think this tornado was a very strong contender...
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