The weather service said an even stronger EF3-rated tornado struck PearlRiverCounty in Mississippi.
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Homes in PearlRiverCounty in central Mississippi were damaged when a storm passed through Tuesday afternoon, the director of the county's emergency management department said.
Volunteer Beth McMillan, a field geologist and professor at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, worked in PearlRiverCounty, Mississippi, a couple of weeks after the storm.