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December 23

• 1921 – A significant tornado outbreak hit the Southeastern United States. An F3 tornado destroyed 40 tenant homes on a plantation, killing two people, before striking Clarkedale, Arkansas. There, four more died in a store while Christmas shopping. An F2 tornado killed five people on plantations between Jonestown and Marks, Mississippi. One other person died when his horse stepped on a downed power line. Just past midnight, another F3 tornado killed one person in Spencer, Louisiana and at least five others (possibly eight) on nearby plantations. Eight more people were killed by tornadoes in the pre-dawn hours of Christmas Eve.
• 2014 – Seven tornadoes touched down in the Southeastern United States. The strongest, rated EF3, heavily damaged or destroyed numerous homes and businesses in Columbia, Mississippi, causing three deaths and 50 injuries. Two others died west of Laurel, Mississippi when an EF2 tornado obliterated a mobile home.
• 2015 – Another major tornado outbreak hit the Southeast. A long-track EF4 tornado killed nine people in northern Mississippi with homes destroyed in and near Holly Springs, Ashland, and Walnut. An EF3 tornado destroyed 33 homes and 2 businesses near Clarksdale and Marks, Mississippi, killing two people and injuring 26. Two others died from an EF2 tornado east of Linden, Tennessee.