injuries , according to Linwood Epps of the county 's emergency management agency . He said that the local Cain Elementary school was damaged , with part of its roof missing . The National Weather Service on Sunday gave the Mississippi tornado a preliminary rating of at least 3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale of 0-5 , with wind speeds of up to 160 miles per hour and a preliminary path width of one and a half miles . Were you affected by the tornado ? Send in pics , video Ron Sullivan , a store owner in Choctaw County , said he was lucky to be alive after the storm hit around midday Saturday . `` They always talk about you hearing the train , '' Sullivan told CNN . `` There was no train . There was a bomb . '' He said two customers were walking toward the door of his store when the tornado struck and that `` when they opened the door , it hit and blew me back . '' `` The only thing that went through my mind were two things -- ` Please do n't let anything else fall on me '
Yazoo City , Mississippi -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Rescue crews in Mississippi continued to search for survivors Sunday from a powerful tornado that ripped through the state a day earlier , killing 10 people , injuring dozens of others and leveling scores of homes . Two children and a 3-month-old baby were among the victims . Two sisters , 9 and 14 , were killed inside a mobile home , Choctaw County Coroner Keith Coleman told CNN . The tornado tore a path nearly a mile wide and decimated neighborhoods as it raked cities from the central western border with Louisiana northeastward to Alabama . It leveled a church , sheared roofs off houses , overturned cars , snapped down hundreds of trees and plunged large swaths of the state in darkness as it toppled power lines . The same storm system that unleashed Saturday 's twister delivered severe weather to other parts of the South on Sunday , with tornadoes hitting Alabama and South Carolina . On Sunday , a tornado in Darlington County in northern South Carolina overturned as many as four mobile homes and toppled trees and downed power lines . Three people were hospitalized with minor