Six people were injured when strong winds pounded central Mississippi in a line from Port Gibson to Starkville Monday night and this morning, and authorities reported major storm damage in Starkville and Yazoo City with downed power lines, uprooted trees and damaged property.

Tornadoes had not been confirmed, but National Weather Service teams were inspecting damaged homes and buildings and fallen and uprooted trees to determine if the destruction was the result of one or more tornadoes, meteorologist Alan Campbell said.

“Crews are out in the field in several sites across the area,” Campbell said, specifying Yazoo City, Jasper County and Attala County moving up into Oktibbeha County and Starkville. “Their inspection will determine if we did in fact have tornadoes or straight-line winds in those areas.”

In Warren County, where tornado warnings were issued around 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., about 1,100 Entergy customers lost power when a tree fell across Culkin Road at 8 p.m, spokesman Don Arnold said.

In addition, electricity was reported out along U.S. 61 North from the Beechwood intersection to the Oak Ridge area and in the Wildwood subdivision behind the former Mercy Hospital. Downtown Vicksburg, including City Hall and the Warren County Jail, also lost power for a few minutes, city information technology director Bill Ford said.

By 6 this morning, power had been restored to all but 25 customers, Arnold said.

Flash flooding was seen in several areas of Vicksburg and Warren County as 2.93 inches were reported across the area, and more trees were reported down on Jeff Davis and Fisher Ferry roads and the Campbell Swamp area in the south, and Freetown Road, U.S. 61 North and Platte Road in the north, but no injuries were reported, Sheriff Martin Pace said.

“We actually did have smaller trees and limbs down in other areas but deputies were able to get out and remove them from roads,” Pace said.

In Yazoo City, police said what they believe was a tornado caused heavy damage in the downtown area, including businesses and the county courthouse.

In April, nearly 200 homes in Yazoo County were destroyed or damaged by a tornado, and Monday night’s storm carved a similar path through the state, moving from Louisiana through Claiborne and Warren counties into Yazoo, Holmes, Attala and Oktibbeha counties.

The Mississippi Highway Patrol blocked traffic on U.S. 49 leading into Yazoo City for a time, a police dispatcher said just after the storm. “Nobody’s going in or out of downtown,” the dispatcher said. “We’re running on generators.”

In Attala County, high winds damaged mobile homes, and six injured people were treated at a Kosciusko hospital, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

In Starkville, home to Mississippi State University, authorities say the heaviest damage was reported in The Pines mobile home park near Starkville High School. Some of the seven destroyed mobile homes were tossed from their foundations.

“We’ve had no reports of injuries,” Police Chief David Lindley told the Starkville Daily News. “The trailer park has been searched at least three times by police officers and firefighters. What we’ve been doing is trying to verify the locations of all the residents.”

MEMA officials said more complete damage assessments were due later today.

Power outages and some damage was reported in Monroe, Smith and Leake counties.

In Claiborne County, just south of Warren County, Sheriff Frank Davis said no major damage was reported, and in Louisiana, Madison Parish investigator Neal Horath also reported no injuries or damage in Tallulah and surrounding areas.

In central Louisiana, a tornado destroyed a brick house and damaged three other residences near the town of Atlanta. No one was injured, the Winn Parish sheriff’s office said.

The sheriff’s office says the twister hit about 3 p.m. Monday. The tornado also damaged another house and two mobile homes.

Alabama emergency management officials said a possible tornado toppled trees and power lines in Lamar County near the Mississippi line this morning, and winds estimated at near 70 mph blew a vehicle off Corridor X near Cordova in Walker County.

Meteorologist Campbell said showers were expected to clear out this afternoon, leaving cold overnight temperatures.

The NWS forecast included a high today around 50, dropping to 28 tonight, but sunny and warming as the week progresses.