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A massive tornado that was nearly a mile long has killed at least 26 people and injured dozens more after devastating parts of western Mississippi on Friday night.
"Friday night was like nothing I've ever experienced," Zachary Hall, a storm chaser who watched the tornado sweep through the small town of Rolling Fork, wrote on Twitter ."This tornado was just… different. It was scary. It was loud. It had a growl. It was a terrifying beast in the dark that literally destroyed a town."
See moreThe storm that caused the tornado was one of a larger storm system that raged across California and triggered severe flooding in Arizona, eastern Oklahoma and northern Virginia, according to the Washington Post . It gathered in strength as it traveled, fueled by high surface temperatures over the Gulf of Mexico and high altitude winds from the jet stream, which generated the spin necessary to whip up a violent tornado.
"The conditions were just perfect for the storm to last a very long time, and that is usually not common," Lance Perrilloux, a meteorologist with the NWS in Jackson, told the BBC ."It caused that tornado to wreak havoc for a long distance."
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