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One weather-related death has been reported in relation to recent heavy rains and flash flooding as Mississippi braces for more rain over the next several days, Mississippi Emergency Management ...
Flash flood warnings stretched over nearly 150 miles of Mississippi Friday afternoon as training storms – storms that move over the same area in quick succession – dumped 2 to 3 inches of rain ...
The central and southern areas of Mississippi are under an Elevated Threat warning for flash flooding. Areas to the north of Jackson are likely to see 2-4 inches of rain.
On May 3, using the planned procedures for the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, the Corps of Engineers blasted a two-mile (3 km) hole in the levee protecting the floodway, flooding 130,000 acres (530 km 2) of farmland in Mississippi County, Missouri, in an effort to save the town of Cairo, Illinois and the rest of the levee system, from record-breaking flood waters. [19]
The same alert is in effect for Jackson, Mississippi, through 6 p.m. local time Thursday while Birmingham, Alabama, is under the watch through 12 a.m. local time Friday.
Many coastal towns of Mississippi (and Louisiana) had already been obliterated, in a single night. [5] Hurricane-force winds reached coastal Mississippi by 2 a.m. [2] and lasted over 17 hours, spawning 11 tornadoes (51 in other states [3]) and a 28-foot (8.5 m) storm surge [3] flooding 6–12 miles (9.7–19.
Tunica Resorts, [3] formerly known as Robinsonville until 2005, [citation needed] is a census-designated place (CDP) in northern Tunica County, Mississippi, United States, north of the county seat of Tunica. The community is situated mostly between the Mississippi River and U.S. Route 61, along the border with Arkansas.
A flash flood emergency has also been issued in the southeastern Texas cities of Kirbyville and Newton, near the border of Louisiana. Rescue crews responded to “10 to 15 high-water rescues” in ...