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UPDATE, 7:39 p.m.: A Tornado Warning has been issued for Alcorn County. UPDATE, 6:30 p.m.: A Tornado Warning has been issued for the following counties: Chester, Hardeman, Mcnairy UPDATE: A Tornado Watch was issued for much of the area at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon. It is scheduled to last until 10 p.m. See affected counties here. […]

COVINGTON, Tenn. — Three of Covington, Tenneesse’s largest industries are shut down after a tornado hit the town a week and a half ago. While two manufacturers are planning to reopen, the future of the Delfield refrigerator plant is uncertain. A man, who does not want to be identified, is a thirty-year employee of The […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — People still sorting through the wreckage of their homes after a weekend of deadly weather braced for another wave of strong storms that began rolling into parts of the Midwest and South on Tuesday evening. At least one tornado was confirmed Tuesday night, and officials warned residents to have shelter […]

La Nina seemed to treat Louisiana and the rest of the Southeast United States like a punching bag. Its three-year barrage of body blows has come to an end, but left behind a lot of scars from hurricanes and tornadoes among other weather disasters. Experts caution that attributing any single event to La Nina or […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The National Weather Service determined that an EF-0 tornado moved through Haywood County early Tuesday morning. According to the NWS office in Memphis, the tornado had peak wind speeds of about 80 mph and traveled 2.4 miles. No injuries or fatalities were reported. This was not the first tornado that moved through […]

Lawmakers held a moment of silence on the House floor Wednesday to honor the victims of the deadly tornadoes that tore through Mississippi last week. Twenty-one people were killed after tornadoes ripped through Mississippi on Friday night. The weather event marked the deadliest tornadoes in the Magnolia State since April 2011, according to The Associated […]

ROLLING FORK, Miss. — Cleanup is underway in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, after an EF-4 tornado packing winds of 166 miles per hour or more all but leveled the town Friday night. In the tight-knit Sharkey County community, 13 people were killed but many survived and are giving thanks.          Georgia Russell, her son, and her […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Silver City and Rolling Fork, Mississippi were hit hard by Friday night’s destructive tornadoes, with at least 25 people dead in Mississippi as well as dozens of others injured. The National Weather Service out of Jackson, MS said the following, “The Rolling Fork/Silver City tornado has received a preliminary EF-4 rating. We […]

Memphis, Tenn. – At least four people were killed by a tornado in Wynne, Arkansas, Friday night. Cross Counter Coroner Eli Long released the latest numbers just before midnight. No other information has been released about the victims. Wynne officials have not said how many people were hurt, but Cross Ridge Community Hospital said at […]

Watch the latest forecast in the video player above. ** MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Several counties across the Mid-South are under a flood and/or tornado watch Friday. As of 7 a.m., some counties in the News Channel 3 viewing area are under a Flood (Areal) Watch until 12 p.m., a Flash Flood Warning until 9:15 a.m., […]

DALLAS (AP) — Tornadoes touched down in Texas and Louisiana as a powerful storm system that dumped heavy snow in California pushed through the Southern Plains and into the Deep South on Thursday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights into and out of the […]