PEARL, Miss. (WJTV) – One person was killed and seven others were hurt during the severe storms that hit Mississippi April 2-6, 2025.
Teams with the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) are assisting counties with ongoing damage assessments. To date, the agency has recorded damage to 274 homes, four businesses, and nine farms across 20 counties. Of the homes affected, 50 were destroyed, while 53 sustained major damage.
MEMA has filled requests for 2,000 sandbags, 530 tarps, 4,000 bottles of water, and more than 500 MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) for counties.
If citizens have immediate unmet needs due to the storms, they are encouraged to contact their county emergency management agency. A list of those county contacts can be found online.
A shelter is open for survivors in Marshall County at Hudsonville C.M.E Church, located at 778 S Slayden Road, in Lamar. The American Red Cross is feeding survivors in affected counties and the Mississippi Southern Baptist Disaster Relief is assisting homeowners with debris removal and tarping homes in several locations.
The following 20 counties have submitted official damage reports to MEAM:
- Alcorn – 9 homes
- Benton – 16 homes
- Bolivar – 1 home, 1 business
- Desoto – 14 homes
- Forrest – damage assessments ongoing
- Hinds – 3 homes
- Jackson – damage assessments ongoing
- Jasper – 28 homes, 3 farms, 1 death
- Kemper – 2 homes, 1 farm, 1 business
- Lafayette – 17 homes
- Lowndes – damage assessments ongoing
- Marshall – 88 homes, 1 business, 1 injured
- Pontotoc – 1 injured, damage assessments ongoing
- Smith – 11 homes
- Sunflower – 4 homes, 1 business
- Tallahatchie – 6 homes
- Tate – 48 homes, 1 farm, 2 injured
- Tippah – 14 homes, 2 farms, 3 injured
- Tunica – 13 homes, 2 farms
- Union – damage assessments ongoing