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On Wednesday night, fourteen tornadoes swept through Mississippi, causing damage to approximately 400 residences and resulting in injuries to 17 individuals across Lincoln, Lamar, and Franklin counties. An emergency has been declared by Governor Tate Reeves as 19,000 residents are still without electricity. The same intense storm system is advancing into Alabama, Georgia, and the Florida Panhandle, with ongoing tornado threats.

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00:00Fourteen tornadoes ripped through Mississippi in a single night, and the destruction is staggering.
00:05Roughly 400 homes have been damaged across Lincoln, Lamar, and Franklin counties.
00:10At least 17 people are injured. Hundreds of families are displaced.
00:15The hardest hit was Wash Trailer Park in Lincoln County.
00:19Twelve people injured, every structure flattened.
00:22In Lamar County alone, 275 homes were damaged.
00:26Governor Tate Reeves has activated emergency operations.
00:30Over 19,000 customers are still without power.
00:33Schools are closed in three counties.
00:36And the system is not done.
00:38The same severe weather corridor is now pushing into southern Alabama, Georgia, and the Florida panhandle.
00:45With Level 2 tornado risk through Friday, what started as one supercell over Mississippi
00:50has become one of the most destructive nights of this severe weather season.
00:54And forecasters warn, May has only just begun.
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