During the morning hours of April 24, 2010, a massive and long tracked tornado struck the southern side of Yazoo City, Ebenezer, Durant, and Hesterville in Mississippi, causing 10 fatalities and injuring a further 146 people during its 149 miles path.

[1][2] On April 24, an energetic upper-level storm system strengthened as it moved from Texas to the southern Great Lakes Region.

This set the stage for a significant severe weather outbreak with the potential for strong and violent tornadoes, large hail, and damaging winds.

[3] As a result, the Storm Prediction Center issued a rare high risk of severe weather for portions of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, the first such issuance since April 26, 2009.

[4] Four "particularly dangerous situation" tornado watches were issued that day for areas of Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama.

Then, it would quickly intensify to a mid-range EF3 as it crosses Highway 80 and Willow Bayou road, where numerous homes were heavily damaged, and multiple power lines were as well as snapped or uprooted dozens of trees.

[10] The tornado remain at high-end EF2 but it also continued to expand in size, snapping and uprooting a prolific amount of trees in the Delta National Forest and destroying an abandoned building as it crosses Highway 61 south of Valley Park, Mississippi, cutting through the extreme southeastern portion of Sharkey County.