Pictured left is what remains of a Rolling Fork business along Highway 61. The Enterprise-Tocsin tracked the monster storm last Friday evening and was able to capture this image, and others, moments after the devastating tornado destroyed the south Delta town. Pictured to the right is the former Duncan Gin in Inverness, captured by former E-T publisher Jim Abbott the day after a similar twister hit Inverness on February 21, 1971. The tornado that hit Inverness was classified as an EF5, while the preliminary ranking for the long track tornado last Friday night is an EF4, according to the National Weather Service. More coverage appears on Pages 10-14.
It was 52 years ago last month.
February 21 to be exact.
That was the day the town of Inverness was changed forever by one of the strongest tornados in the state’s recorded history.
