ROLLING FORK, Miss. Preliminary assessments show that 313 structures in Mississippi were destroyed and more than 1,000 were affected in some way, the Federal Emergency Management Agency told emergency managers Monday.
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A pair of storm systems will sweep across the Lower 48 states this week, featuring characteristics more typical of spring than winter in many places. While snow will fall from the Southern Rockies to the Great Lakes, severe thunderstorms may be the big story affecting parts of the Deep South and Ohio and Tennessee Valley Wednesday and Thursday.