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Signs of both destruction and recovery can be found throughout the town of Smithville nearly one year after it was struck by an EF5 tornado. Here, a new
house is being built in that part of town, which has become largely vacant since the storm. (THOMAS WELLS | DAILY JOURNAL)
An EF5 tornado on April 27 killed 16 people in Smithville and also destroyed 150 houses and 14 of the Monroe County town’s 16 businesses. That wasn’t the day’s only severe weather, as multiple
twisters inflicted damage throughout Northeast Mississippi. (THOMAS WELLS | DAILY JOURNAL FILE)
The Northeast Mississippi storms were part of a storm system that pounded a large part of the southeastern United States. Today, in the NEMS Daily Journal and at DJournal.com the Journal looks back while updating what has happened in areas like Smithville and Chicksaw County since the storms.
NEMS Daily Journal photographers Thomas Wells, C. Todd Sherman and Deste Lee captured the day in photos that this year were honored as the best work in Mississippi and Louisiana with the C.P. Liter Photography Award from the Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press Managing Editors.
Today, we offer this photo gallery as a way to look back and remember what took place that day. It is also a reminder of the work that has been done and continues to be done to bring the area back since that day in April.
Click here to view more work by Daily Journal photographers.