Sounds of chainsaws fill the air as recovery operations get underway in Mississippi after a deadly, multiday tornado outbreak left swaths of destruction across the region over the weekend.

Violent tornadoes and high winds decimated homes, wiped out schools and toppled semitractor-trailers as a monster storm that killed at least 32 people ripped its way across the central and southern U.

Unusually vicious and damaging weather across multiple U.S. states spawned violent tornadoes, blinding dust storms and fast-moving wildfires over the weekend, leaving at least 39 people dead. In the latest tally of the destruction,

NEW ORLEANS, La. (WLBT) - The National Weather Service in Louisiana has confirmed the strength of two tornadoes that struck Walthall County on Saturday. The first tornado, which was tracked from Kentwood, Louisiana, to Darbun, Mississippi, has a preliminary rating of EF-4, with an estimated peak of winds at 170 miles per hour.

At least seven tornadoes hit Alabama on Saturday, and that number will likely climb even higher later today. The National Weather Service plans to continue looking at storm damage and has several areas that will be visited by storm survey teams today (Monday).