Thompson Field. Sign up for our Newsletters ... The new facility will be 19,400 square feet and support the Jackson-Evers ...

Unfortunately, a few of those can be violent tornadoes, particularly in the South. On March 3, 1966, 59 years ago today, an F5 tornado tore a 202-mile long path across central and eastern Mississippi ...

It then brushed the north side of Thompson Field, now Jackson-Evers International Airport, damaging the Mississippi Air National Guard base. I n Scott County, homes were "destroyed to the ...