Hundreds of Homes Damaged in Mississippi Storms as Multiple Tornadoes Reported

People walk among debris at Gene's Mobile Home Supply, a trailer park in Bogue Chitto, Miss., on May, 7, 2026, after a tornado cut across the state. Gerald Herbert/AP Photo

BOGUE CHITTO, Miss.—Anunciata Schwebel could only watch in horror on FaceTime while her friend and tenant slunk into a bathtub to take cover from one of several tornadoes that slammed into Mississippi just after sunset Wednesday.

Her friend screamed that the windows were breaking. Schwebel could see on her screen the devastation to the cluster of cottages she owned in the town of Purvis — walls and roofs ripped away, her tenants huddled in their bathrooms.