service even issuing an alert that didn t mince words, exclaiming quote to protect your life. take cover. now a former mayor of rolling fork told a local television station that a tornado blew the windows out of the back of his house. and the sharkey county sheriff s office reporting gas leaks and people trapped in piles of rubble, mississippi governor tate reeves saying in a twitter post that search and rescue teams are active and that more ambulances and emergency assets are being sent to those affected areas. the governor also saying quote many in the mississippi delta need your prayers and god s protection. the storm prediction center, saying the greatest threat of tornadoes overnight will be in arkansas, louisiana, mississippi and tennessee. storms with damaging winds and hill also forecast from eastern texas and southeastern oklahoma into parts of southeastern missouri and southern illinois. let s go now to fox weather meteorologist ian oliver, who s standing by with th
hear you. were you on the ground tonight when this was happening? yes me and my partner, frankie shepherd. we were in rolling fork. we drove south of town. and actually witnessed the tornado right before it moved into town. unfortunately, can you tell us what you could see? because again, i ve heard this described as a wedge tornado. this first one the hit rolling fork. can you talk about what you saw? yes it was. it was a very large tornado had from what we could see was it was a large tornado and had horizontal water seas, which is usually reserved for the strongest tornadoes that had a loud roar train like noise. very spooky, you know, and it s dark, so you re only able to see the tornado with lightning flashes. and we unfortunately, watch this tornado tracking the town before we had to turn back around. and then the rain obscured our view, but yeah, it was. it was a scary situation