that the storm was coming over and all we could hear was the house. breaking apart. and it s also important to mention that mississippi emergency management is saying despite what you re seeing and your desire to come here and help they re asking people to please not self deployed in volunteer that way that might slow down the process. instead consider donating resources water to the rolling fork civic center, fred all right, isabel rose ellis. thank you so much. let s go now to cnn meteorologist allison chinchar in the weather center to see what else might be ahead. alright because this was a lot you have to understand there was a significant amount of tornado warnings now not all resulted in a tornado. but if you look at some of these lines here, this one going straight from rolling fork all the way up just south of huntsville. whether service is doing storm surveys, as we speak, trying to determine was this in fact, one single tornado that just made it an extended prolonged period o
allison chinchar, thanks so much keep us posted on all of that. all right, joining us. right now, someone who saw that tornado as it hit rolling fork, dr reed timmer. he s a meteorologist and storm chaser. who was there in mississippi last night, and it s still there right now. so you live streamed. right doctor? the storm on your youtube channel. um and what? what did people see? well, it was a classic outbreak. after this time. storms fast moving tornado but our and i m standing river delta and as soon as he thought it was fun right up the valley and just after on it became a tornado producing machine. very large tornado that in the storm was electrified two. it had strobe lightning just incredible lightning as it began to become a tornadic as these storms often do, and you
gone. cnn s isabelle rose salas is on the scene there in rolling fork, isabel. uh what is the latest there in a area that is just hit so hard? yeah but it s awful to witness this year on the ground. it wasn t clear overnight just how much damage there was. but once the sun came up, it was just completely unavoidable. i m standing right now. what used to be a mobile home park, but now it s been completely leveled. almost you can see just the power of this tornado. if you look at that tree, those are metal pieces from the mobile homes here wrapped around the branches. of the tree and as we keep looking over here, just reminders that these were homes, people s homes , mattresses over here. cars that have been busted and overturned. and if we keep looking in that direction as far as the eye can see, it almost appears like we re in a different world. fred one storm
get this community the help that it needs. administrator chris will also said that they re working on getting that over in the federal side of things to bring in that federal money as well. we have also seen utility trucks working to replace the power poles, 80 and t trucks, too. to restore the cellular connection, because, as you can imagine, it s so important in moments like this for first responders to communicate as their spanning across this mass area, looking for anyone who might be trapped underneath. i also spoke to the mayor of rolling fork here. his name is eldridge walker, who was trapped in his home with his wife last night when that tornado came in, take a listen to how he described it. it sounded like afraid train. driving over my home. and it happened so quickly. by the time we responded to the alert i got my wife we got in the tub covered our heads. by the time we did