{"id":780033,"date":"2026-05-07T16:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780033\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:43:21","slug":"tornadoes-and-storms-in-mississippi-damage-hundreds-of-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780033\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornadoes and storms in Mississippi damage hundreds of homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOGUE CHITTO, Miss. (AP) \u2014 Powerful storms<\/a> that spawned at least three tornadoes tore through several Mississippi counties, damaging around 500 homes, uprooting trees and injuring at least 17 people, authorities said Thursday. <\/p>\n

There were no reports of deaths<\/a> after the tornadoes<\/a> cut across the state\u2019s southwest late Wednesday evening, said Scott Simmons, a spokesperson for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. <\/p>\n

He said 12 of those hurt were transported from a hard-hit trailer park in the small community of Bogue Chitto, about an hour\u2019s drive south of the state capital in rural Lincoln County.<\/p>\n

Most of the two dozen homes at Gene\u2019s Mobile Home Supply were flattened into heaps of splintered boards and twisted metal. People picked through the debris Thursday morning under cloudy skies as a chain saw buzzed in the background.<\/p>\n

Krystal Miller and six others \u2014 including babies as young as 4 weeks old \u2014 grabbed a Bible and sheltered in their home\u2019s hallway when the tornado sent the building cartwheeling through the air.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just flipped, and it threw us all out,\u201d she said. \u201cIt scattered everybody out. … I can\u2019t find the Bible.\u201d <\/p>\n

She said her young son was in the hospital for monitoring and another child was injured in the face. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe trailer is in pieces but we made it out,\u201d Miller said. \u201cI\u2019m feeling grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n

One intact trailer lay flipped on its roof near the tree line. Several cars, some with hazard lights blinking, appeared to have been picked up by the storm.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know there were at least three tornadoes,\u201d said Daniel Lamb, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service office in Jackson. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe same storm produced at least two tornadoes from Franklin, Lincoln into Lawrence counties, and then there was another one from Lamar possibly into Forest County.\u201d <\/p>\n

He said there may have been more. \u201cThose are just the ones that we are able to confirm by radar before even having gone down there.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cPray for Mississippi,\u201d Gov. Tate Reeves posted online, saying the state Emergency Management Agency was coordinating response efforts. <\/p>\n

Many roads were still blocked in Lincoln County and teams from the agency were assessing the damage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ask that you please refrain from sightseeing as crews are working,\u201d the department posted early Thursday. <\/p>\n

The governor said a volunteer rescue group was providing a 50-person shelter pod, a high-powered generator and 10 pallets of supplies to the county, which reported at least 200 damaged homes. <\/p>\n

Lamar County to the southeast reported about 275 homes damaged, according to the state emergency management agency. Another 10 to 12 homes were damaged in Lawrence County. <\/p>\n

More storms were expected Thursday with the possibility of tornadoes across parts of Alabama, Georgia and Florida, the weather service said. Strong storms also were possible for parts of the Carolinas and Texas.<\/p>\n

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McCormack reported from Concord, New Hampshire. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOGUE CHITTO, Miss. (AP) \u2014 Powerful storms that spawned at least three tornadoes tore through several Mississippi counties,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":780034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[66557,10109,10106,319307,57,319305,773,15337,23754,50,319306,3883,15333,3878,61,67,132,68,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-780033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-abraham-lincoln","10":"tag-climate","11":"tag-climate-and-environment","12":"tag-dan-lamb","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-krystal-miller","15":"tag-mississippi","16":"tag-ms-state-wire","17":"tag-natural-disasters","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-scott-simmons","20":"tag-storms","21":"tag-tate-reeves","22":"tag-tornadoes","23":"tag-u-s-news","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116534300373824947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}