President Joe Biden declared an emergency for Mississippi in the early hours of today, making federal funding available to Humphreys, Carroll, Monroe, and Sharkey counties.

The powerful storm tore through multiple communities along its hour-long course in Mississippi, leaving at least 25 dead and numerous others injured.

President Joe Biden declared an emergency declaration for Mississippi in the early hours of today, making federal funding available to Humphreys, Carroll, Monroe, and Sharkey counties, which were the most affected by the deadly tornado that ripped through the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest areas of the country, on Friday night.

The powerful storm tore through many communities along its hour-long course in Mississippi, leaving at least 25 people dead and hundreds more hurt. After hundreds of people were forced to flee their homes, search and recovery teams began sifting through the wreckage of damaged and destroyed homes, business buildings, and municipal offices on Sunday.

Deanne Criswell, the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator, was supposed to visit the state on Sunday to assess the damage. Instead, a FEMA Coordinating Officer, John Boyle, has been chosen to direct federal recovery efforts.

According to the White House, federal cash can now be used for recovery initiatives such as short-term housing, home repairs, loans to cover uninsured property damages, and other individual and company programs.

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The tornado destroyed entire neighborhoods, destroyed homes, overturned a municipal water tower, and tore the spire off a church. Even though the recovery process has only just begun, the National Weather Service warned about a chance of further severe weather on Sunday in eastern Louisiana, south-central Mississippi, and south-central Alabama, including high winds, giant hail, and maybe tornadoes.

The Jackson's National Weather Service office tweeted during the late hours of  Saturday that the tornado had gotten a preliminary EF-4 classification based on available data. 
The organization claims an EF-4 tornado has maximum wind gusts between 166 and 200 mph. (265 kph and 320 kph). However, the Jackson office warned that it was still receiving data regarding the tornado.

The 2,000-person village of Rolling Fork was ravaged by the tornado on Friday night, which turned homes into mounds of debris, turned automobiles on their sides, and brought down the water tower.

Damage from other alleged twisters was being repaired in various areas of the Deep South. The Morgan County sheriff's office in Alabama tweeted that one man had died.

According to Rodney Porter, who lives 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Rolling Fork, "I don't know how anybody survived." He drove there immediately to offer any help when the storm hit Friday night.

Porter reported smelling natural gas and hearing people yelling for use in the dark when he arrived and saw "total devastation." He declared, "Houses are gone, houses are stacked on each other, and vehicles are on top of that."

To assess the damage, Annette Body took a car from nearby Belozi to the severely damaged settlement of Silver City. Although several people she knows lost everything, she felt "blessed" because her home was spared. Nevertheless, she grieved as she surveyed the destroyed houses yesterday night and this morning.

They advised covering, but many people could not because it happened quickly. On Saturday, storm survivors combed through densely packed rubble and downed trees with chaintort to locate survivors. Many of them were confused and in shock as they moved around.

Oak trees that were decades old had their roots uprooted and were pinned beneath power cables. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves announced a state of emergency. After witnessing the devastation in a region filled with vast expanses of cotton, corn, and soybean fields and catfish farming ponds, they offered to aid the reconstruction.

While they were speaking, Biden called the state's congressional delegation. More than a dozen shelters have opened in Mississippi to provide housing for individuals who have been relocated. According to preliminary statistics based on storm report estimates and radar data, the tornado traveled at least 170 miles (274 kilometers) over an hour. 
A meteorologist stated this with the National Weather Service's Jackson, Mississippi, office, Lance Perrilloux. He remarked, attributing the lengthy course to extensive atmospheric instability, "That's rare — very, very rare."

According to preliminary research, the tornado's line of damage started about southwest of Rolling Fork, then headed northeast through the small towns of Midnight and Silver City before carrying on to Tchula, Black Hawk, and Winona.

Brian Squitieri, a severe storm forecaster at the Norman Storm Prediction Center of the National Weather Service, claimed that the supercell that generated the deadly twister also looked to produce tornadoes that damaged areas of northwest and north-central Alabama.