Mixed media artist Kathy Prescott Parker remembers standing on the deck outside her Amory home on April 27, 2011. She anxiously checked the sky for any sign of an approaching tornado. The sun was shining, but dire weather alerts were prolific. That spring afternoon, Amory would be spared, but the small neighboring town of Smithville would fall into the bullseye of a catastrophic EF5 tornado, part of a "super outbreak" of deadly supercells wreaking havoc from Mississippi to North Carolina on that
Jan Swoope is the Lifestyles Editor for The Commercial Dispatch.
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