Three people were injured late Wednesday night when an apparent tornado slammed through Sharkey County, destroying two mobile homes.

“I’m pretty sure it was a tornado,” Sharkey County Sheriff Lindsey Adams Jr. said by phone from the site on Mississippi 14 this morning. “There had to be a lot of rotation in this to do the damage it did.”

Adams did not have the names of the injured but said two were a mother and son in one mobile home and another woman in the second trailer.

He said the trailers are part of a community of 12 mobile homes about six miles east of Anguilla. Sharkey County Emergency Management Director James Ross said a total of eight mobile homes in the county were destroyed or heavily damaged.

All three victims were taken to Sharkey-Issaquena Hospital and later transferred to a Jackson hospital, Adams said. Injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, he said.

The storm reported at about 11 p.m. also brought spotty rain to Warren County, but Emergency Management Director John Elfer said no damage or injuries were reported in Warren.

Adams said two other people were in the mobile home where the mother and son were injured. They were not injured, he said.

No other Sharkey homes were reported damaged during the storm, Adams said.

However, a Sharkey farmer said this morning that storm damage had been reported to sheds and shops near Straight Bayou Road, also off Mississippi 14.

This morning, Adams was with Mississippi Emergency Management officials who were examining the damaged area. They were expected to make a final designation on the strength of the storm today, Adams said.

MEMA spokesman Greg Flynn said the same storm left two people injured in Tallahatchie County and one each in Scott and Coahoma counties.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.