Mya Grimes, a rising senior at Jackson State University in Mississippi, was on her way to St. Louis, her hometown, when a tornado tore through the city and threw her out of her car on Friday, May 16.

The National Weather Service is conducting storm surveys on Wednesday to look at damages related to severe storms Tuesday night.

I’d ask him what should I do to make a proper judgment as I worked my way back to [examining tornado reports from] the Louisiana swamps in 1900. He helped me a lot. When I disagreed with him ...