Massive EF-4 Tornado tracked across Louisville Mississippi killing 10 people, throwing cars and tossing trucks on April 28th 2014
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One of many twisters that touched down in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee during the multi-day tornado outbreak of April 27th & 28th, 2014. The day before killer tornadoes touched down near Little Rock Arkansas as well as Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Louisiana.
LOUISVILLE TORNADO: April 28, 2014 Current statistics.
10 fatalities, numerous injuries and many still missing. I would estimate this tornado will get an EF-4 rating by the NWS.
This is what I witnessed... At Approximately 4:30 PM a large tornado descended from a massive mesocyclone on the South side of Louisville and tracked Northeast across the eastern side of town. Suddenly the sky filled with strange debris namely leaves, branches, house insulation, tin and plywood. At one point I noticed something very large flapping in the sky. When it landed close by I realized it was the floor mat of a car. The chase ended with large pine and oak trees laying across the road blocking passage. I turned around to find another route Eastern route and came across a field full of tossed cars. Firemen and locals were already at the scene looking inside the cars for people. To my knowledge they were all empty. In the distance you could see the path of the tornado had destroyed houses. To get to that scene several locals trying to assist and myself had to meander around felled power lines. We parked in a line, exited the vehicles and started to approach destroyed houses when a lady ran up explaining we had to move. They found a victim with "serious head trauma" and we were blocking passage so I evacuated that scene. I then ended up on the South side of town. Again in the distance we could make out more destruction and exited our vehicles and started tracking through the mud on foot. The clouds were getting darker and a second tornado warned storm was going to train directly over the path of the last tornado. It was nightmareish Hell. A small tornado touched down and I ran back to my car in fear of wave two. Feeling defeated and helpless I blasted south while lines of Emergency vehicles from other towns raced into the scene. Mike Hollinger's storm chase team was also on the scene and were able to aid several victims successfully.
