WDAM - Channel 7 - Serving Hattiesburg, Laurel and the Pine BeltNarrow Escape for Mize HS Students
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Red Cross officials say Mize students are lucky to be alive after high winds blew the roof off Mize High School in Smith County.
School administrators moved 650 students onto the first floor of a two-story building just before a tornado hit. No one was injured.
The kindergarten-through-high school campus will be closed until further notice.
Pike County may have taken the worst of the weather's punch in South Mississippi. Eight homes there were flattened by a tornado that cut a 10- to 12-mile path off old Highway 24 near McComb. Another 15 homes sustained major damage and one church was destroyed.
Two people were injured in Pike County, bringing the state total to eight.
In neighboring Walthall County, the Mississippi Department of Transportation rerouted traffic from Mississippi 583 until downed trees could be removed.
MEMA says two mobile homes were destroyed in Walthall County and several homes were damaged.
Lawrence County reported two homes with major damage, one mobile home with major damage and two businesses with major damage.
The city of Hattiesburg experienced moderate street flooding.
