123 people were killed as 40 to 50 tornadoes swept through the delta valley of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas February 21, 1971. Mississippi was declared a major disaster area, with an initial death toll of 110 persons. Brick houses, schools, churches, and wood buildings were destroyed. It was reported that house trailers were coiled around pine trees like barbed wire.
Bodies and boards were carried and deposited along the rain soaked country side. Texas was buried under by 5 feet (1.5 m) high snow drifts by blizzards packing 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) winds. The Texas Panhandle was barraged by rain, snow and tornadoes. Hospitals were filled to capacity with the hundreds injured all along the Mississippi River Delta. Travelers were stranded along the Kansas turnpike.
Mississippi Federal Disaster Area
The hardest hit area was Mississippi, initially reporting a death toll of 68 persons, and nine towns struck by tornadoes. The town of Inverness, Mississippi with population of 1,100 had entire neighborhoods completely leveled, and 21 were killed. Power lines were felled. The ensuing disruption of public utilities hampered identification of casualties and reporting deaths by civil defense officials.
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