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Tornadoes Strike Deep South Killing and Injuring Dozens
A line of violent storms lashed the lower Mississippi Valley causing eight deaths and numerous injuries. In Madison Mississippi Roosevelt Greenwood and family hid in a closet as a tornado ripped through destroying homes and killing residents. Other fatalities occurred in Sledge Mississippi and towns in Arkansas and Haleyville Alabama reported injuries and damaged businesses as the front moved east across several states. The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings across Mississippi, western Kentucky and Alabama as the storm system swept from the Great Lakes toward the Gulf of Mexico.
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Mississippi Valley
Roosevelt Greenwood
Madison
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Greenwood
Mississippi
Delta
Hattie Robinson
Sledge
Lorenzo
Alabama
Haleyville
Venita Armstrong
Arkansas
Ohio
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
National Weather Service
Kentucky
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Missouri
Texas