Saturday storm system causes damage, death in north Mississippi

June 7, 2025 – A storm system that went through north Mississippi and the Mid-South has left one person dead and as many as 23,000 at one time without electric power.

Watches and warnings swept through the region with the National Weather Service issuing a severe thunderstorm watch for an area that included DeSoto County until 5 p.m. As the storm system went through, a special weather statement was issued for the DeSoto County area at mid-morning and severe thunderstorm warnings were put out for DeSoto and Marshall counties. A flash flood warning was also in effect until 2 p.m.

Among the damage reports, thunderstorm winds at Blue Springs in Union County felled a tree to an outpost structure and damaged the structure. Wind damage was reported in Lee, Tishomingo, Pontotoc and Prentiss County, and in Lafayette County, one person died when a tree fell on a vehicle and killed a person inside. That took place near Delay Road. Multiple trees were reported down in the Oxford area.

There was a report of trees down and damage to a church in the vicinity of Maude Rd, Cow Oak Rd, and Dubbs Road in Tunica County.

Gov. Tate Reeves reported on social media that approximately 23,000 people were without power due to the storms.

Entergy Mississippi reported 53 customers without power as of mid-afternoon Saturday, scattered in three different outage areas. Northcentral Electric Cooperative did not report any issues from the storm with the outage map showing a smattering of outages, primary in the area of Pleasant Hill Road in Olive Branch.

A severe thunderstorm watch was issued for north Mississippi, including DeSoto County, on Saturday evening by the National Weather Service, in effect until 2 a.m. Sunday morning.

Forecasts are showing chances of rain, including the possibility of thunderstorms, through Monday in DeSoto County.