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The tornado was the strongest tornado of the 1971 Mississippi Delta tornado outbreak, and second deadliest behind a later F4 tornado the same day. The tornado is most notable for tracking directly through Inverness, Mississippi, destroying over 90% of the town. The tornado is the first and only F5/EF5 tornado to impact the state of Louisiana.
The tornado then devastated Delta City, killing seven people and destroying the entire community. The tornado continued northeastward, claiming two additional lives west of Isola. Afterward, it entered the town of Inverness as a large tornado, destroying an estimated 80–90% of the community, killing 21 people, and injuring 200 more. In town ...
Inverness is a town in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 868 at the 2020 census. [3] As the town had the largest cotton gin in the Mississippi Delta, it served as a gathering place for farmers from the region when they brought their cotton for processing. The town was heavily damaged by a tornado in 1971.
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Some of the most notorious twisters in U.S. history were wedge tornadoes, including the EF5 that leveled Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, and the El Reno tornado, which was a jaw-dropping 2.6 ...
A tornado outbreak impacted southern Oklahoma, northern Texas, and extreme eastern Arkansas. An F4 tornado "exploded" homes in Malta and Daniels Chapel, Texas, killing one person and injuring five. An F3 tornado struck Achille and Yuba, Oklahoma and north of Willis, severely damaging two schools at Achille. Race horses and 100 head of cattle ...
1971 Inverness tornado; T. Tornado outbreak of February 21–22, 1971 This page was last edited on 2 May 2020, at 02:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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