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2023 Rolling Fork–Silver City Tornado
On the evening of Friday, March 24, 2023, a large, violent, and long-tracked multi-vortex tornado, multi-vortex wedge tornado struck the towns of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, Rolling Fork and Silver City, Mississippi. The tornado killed 17 people and injured at least 165 others. Part of a Tornado outbreak of March 24–27, 2023, wider tornado outbreak sequence across the Southern United States, this tornado was the deadliest and strongest of the event. It caused catastrophic damage in Rolling Fork and significant damage in Silver City. The National Weather Service (NWS) assigned the tornado a rating of EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, with estimated peak winds of . The tornado touched down in Issaquena County, Mississippi, Issaquena County and rapidly intensified as it tracked northeastward into Sharkey County, Mississippi, Sharkey County, reaching EF4 intensity as it approached Rolling Fork. It caused extensive destruction in Rolling Fork, leveling numerous homes and businesses, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the founding campus and Flagship#Colleges and universities in the United States, flagship institution of the University of Illinois System. With over 59,000 students, the University of Illinois is one of the List of United States public university campuses by enrollment, largest public universities by enrollment in the United States. The university contains 16 schools and colleges and offers more than 150 undergraduate and over 100 graduate programs of study. The university holds 651 buildings on and its annual operating budget in 2016 was over $2 billion. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign also operates Research Park at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a research park home to innova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
