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An EF4 tornado strikes the towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City, Mississippi, causing mass destruction.

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2023 Rolling Fork–Silver City tornado

2023 EF4 tornado in Mississippi

On the evening of Friday, March 24, 2023, a large, violent, and long-tracked multi-vortex wedge tornado struck the towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City, Mississippi. The tornado killed 17 people and injured at least 165 others. Part of a wider tornado outbreak sequence across…
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Rolling Fork, Mississippi

City and county seat in Mississippi, United States

Rolling Fork is a city in and the county seat of Sharkey County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the town was 1,883.
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Silver City, Mississippi

Town in Mississippi, United States

Silver City is a town in Humphreys County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 217 at the 2021 census, a massive decline from the 2000 census.
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Mississippi

U.S. state

Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the southwest, and Arkansas to the northwest. Mississippi's western boundary is largely…
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March 24

Day of the year

March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 282 days remain until the end of the year.
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