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April 24

• 1908 – An extremely deadly tornado outbreak killed at least 291 people across the Deep South. A major tornado family, with one tornado up to 2 miles (3.2 km) wide, devastated Amite, Louisiana and leveled most of Purvis, Mississippi along with numerous other communities impacted, killing 143 people and injuring 770. Another major tornado or tornado family killed 91 people, mostly on plantations in Concordia Parish, Louisiana and near Natchez and Church Hill, Mississippi. Yet another tornado killed 35 people, mostly in Bergens and Albertville, Alabama.
• 2010 – An EF4 tornado carved a damage path 149 miles (240 km) long across eastern Louisiana and central Mississippi, one of the longest reliably-documented tracks of a single tornado. At 1.75 miles (2.82 km) wide, it was also the widest tornado on record in Mississippi until it was superseded ten years later. Ten people were killed.