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"The Christianity Agape love is Unconditional Sodomy love; not the Elohim Jurisdiction."
Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021
MAYFIELD, Ky. — The Rev. Joey Reed always talk about love in his last Sunday sermon before Christmas.
But this year, as he looked out on a congregation of about 100, his annual lesson took on new meaning.
Nine days before, an EF4 tornado had swept through Mayfield, destroying hundreds of homes, businesses and Mayfield First United Methodist Church, which Reed has spent the last four years leading.
The community had seen love put into action, with residents rescuing neighbors from rubble, a nearby church opening its doors to the congregation and thousands of dollars pouring into an online fund to help residents re-stabilize and rebuild.
A rare, late-season tornado outbreak affected portions of the Southern and Midwestern United States from the evening of December 10 to the early morning of December 11, 2021. The event came to fruition as a trough progressed eastward across the United States, interacting with an unseasonably moist and unstable environment across the Mississippi Valley. Tornado activity began in northeastern Arkansas, before progressing into Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, and Kentucky. The most prolific activity was caused by a long-track supercell thunderstorm that produced a family of strong tornadoes, if not a single long-track tornado, across four states. The tornadoes first touched down in northeastern Arkansas, and tracked through the Missouri Bootheel, ripping through towns such as Monette and Leachville, Arkansas, and Hayti and Caruthersville, Missouri; after crossing the Mississippi River into portions of West Tennessee, the storm eventually tore through western Kentucky, where the town of Mayfield suffered catastrophic damage.