A very large and long lived tornado that killed 10 people on Saturday along a path length of nearly 200 miles, will likely go down as one of the top 10 deadliest since 1950 and one of the top 5 longest tracked tornadoes on record in Mississippi.
The National Weather Service (NWS) survey teams will be out about today and over the next few days examining the tornado damage to determine the strength and intensity and the extensive track of a tornado that is estimated by the public and stormchasers to have reached an massive width of over 1 mile (1.25 miles) with an estimated continuous track on the ground of 188 to 200 miles from parts of West Central Mississippi northeast into Northern Mississippi.
This tornado is believed to be the same one that initially touched down in Northeast Louisiana, destroying many homes and damaging a chemical plant in Madison Parish, Louisiana just after 1115 am CDT Saturday, before crossing the Mississippi River and striking parts of Warren and Issaquena Counties just after 1130 am CDT Saturday.
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