Weather.com - Becky Kellogg, 10/19/12
This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, Oct. 17, 2012 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows a line of strong and severe thunderstorms along a cold front moving into the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys. A warm front extends across the northern Great Lakes to New York with areas of showers and rain. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are near the Florida Keys. Weather Underground — AP Photo
Thunderstorms swept through the lower and middle-Mississippi Valleys Wednesday night into early Thursday morning with damaging winds and tornadoes. An EF1 tornado was confirmed in the Arkansas town of Clarendon.
Seven more tornadoes were confirmed in Mississippi. This includes a strong EF3 tornado that struck Scott and Newton Counties. The EF3 tornado is only the second tornado of this intensity to strike Mississippi in the month of October.
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