Severe WX March 23-25th, 2023

[warneagle]

Maybe some good news?

 

[Clancy]

 

[Tennie]

Tornado reported on the ground southwest of Winona!

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

There's a cyclone of lofted debris surrounding the storm now.
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Rough caluclations - this thing has been tearing through Mississippi for 84 miles.

 

[TornadoFan]

Just heard somebody say there's a tornado on the ground sw of Winona.

 

[SmokeEater]

From chasers on scene, there are a lot of fatalities in Rolling Fork, they don't have anywhere near enough emergency services in the area. Chasers have been pulling people out of destroyed houses since it passed.

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[kcyalater]

i have a horrible feeling about this.

 

[UncleJuJu98]

i have a horrible feeling about this.

Looking at some of the videos, it seems there's trees nearly snapped at the base.

 

[tornado examiner]

From chasers on scene, there are a lot of fatalities in Rolling Fork, they don't have anywhere near enough emergency services in the area. Chasers have been pulling people out of destroyed houses since it passed.

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Just Fatalities? Or casualties? Which could be fatalities or injuries?

 

[Clancy]

I definitely wouldn't doubt claims about a tornado being OTG SW of Winona, but the Columbus velocity is folding so bad I can't make heads or tails of it, and the Jackson radar is too far away now.

 

[kcyalater]

Just Fatalities? Or casualties? Which could be fatalities or injuries?

early reports are always fog of war

 

[buckeye05]

I’m not one for hyperbole, but that damage looks Mayfield-esque. I’m afraid daylight is going to reveal catastrophic damage.

 

[UncleJuJu98]

From chasers on scene, there are a lot of fatalities in Rolling Fork, they don't have anywhere near enough emergency services in the area. Chasers have been pulling people out of destroyed houses since it passed.

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I'd be careful, if it's just assumptions or actual dead bodies they've pulled or found. I don't doubt that this could be a mass casualty event. But getting caught in the moment can raise hyperbole.

To the reports coming out, not to you. Just wanna clarify

 

[warneagle]

From chasers on scene, there are a lot of fatalities in Rolling Fork, they don't have anywhere near enough emergency services in the area. Chasers have been pulling people out of destroyed houses since it passed.

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The situation is made so much worse by the fact that this is a seriously impoverished part of Mississippi that doesn't have anywhere near the infrastructure to handle this kind of mass casualty event. The mets on WLBT said that Sharkey and Issaquena Counties only have one hospital between them and that they were having to transport people to Vicksburg, which is like 40 miles away.

 

[Tennie]

early reports are always fog of war

It's been said that one should take all reports in the first 24 hours of an event with a gain of salt, particularly if there's no clear audiovisual evidence to help either back up or debunk claims.

 

[billdurham]

2nd Tornado reported SW of Winona per storm chaser.

 

[SmokeEater]

Just Fatalities? Or casualties? Which could be fatalities or injuries?

Fatalities as in deceased people.

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[kcyalater]

early reports from winona are positive. to the southwest not so much.

 

[SmokeEater]

early reports are always fog of war

Not fog of war, I personally know chasers in town that have said this directly, with two of them being off duty firefighters.

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[Clancy]

The situation is made so much worse by the fact that this is a seriously impoverished part of Mississippi that doesn't have anywhere near the infrastructure to handle this kind of mass casualty event. The mets on WLBT said that Sharkey and Issaquena Counties only have one hospital between them and that they were having to transport people to Vicksburg, which is like 40 miles away.

Conversations from earlier today about social vulnerability and severe weather impacts are sadly showing their relevance tonight.