A powerful tornado cut a devastating path of at least 274 kilometres through Mississippi on Friday night, killing about two dozen people and obliterating dozens of buildings, as it stayed on the ground for more than an hour.
The tornado flattened entire blocks of the small Mississippi Delta town of Rolling Fork, reducing homes to piles of rubble, flipping cars on their sides and toppling the water tower.
Residents hunkered down in bathtubs and broke into a John Deere store that they converted into a triage centre for the wounded.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency warned in a Twitter post on Saturday that the casualty
