Louisville Community Room Center

The Monolithic Dome serves as a community center, activity facility, and shelter-in-place storm shelter. The Louisville Community Safe Room is a FEMA P-361 and ICC 500 rated storm shelter that can protect up to 2,218 people during severe weather. It is also a community center for the city of Louisville, Mississippi. During the school year, it is used as an activity center for two adjacent elementary schools. Private organizations can also rent the facility for their own events. The shelter was built in response to an EF-4 tornado on April 28, 2014, that left 30 miles of devastation across Winston County and killed 10 people. The City of Louisville received about 85 percent of the funding from FEMA and from MEMA — the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.