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
see, it looks like people searching for anything, anyone that they can find. trying to help. um you know, can you talk about what s going to happen tomorrow when the sun comes up ? that s when the national weather service will go in and try to try to figure out just how intense the storm was as well as emergency crews being able to do a more thorough search. yeah the national weather service will send out storm survey crews with the ef scale. that they ll determine the rating of this tornado engineers determine the structural integrity of some of the homes. the businesses that were damaged by this and that s how they ll get an estimate of the wind speed from this but exactly what you pointed out. an important part of this is that we re just barely into the very beginning of the springtime severe weather season. this is when we expect, of course not to this intensity , the magnitude the scope of this event. this is when we expect severe weather in these areas. but through the winter sea