Tornado Warning 36, NWS Jackson, MS

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
503 PM CST FRI NOV 4 1988

TORNADO WATCHS ARE IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF MISSISSIPPI AND PARTS
OF ALABAMA FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND SOME OF THIS EVENING.

TORNADO WARNING FOR KEMPER COUNTY EXPIRED AT 500 PM CST.

AT 500 PM CST MERIDIAN RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDED ALONG AND 60 MILES NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM PURVIS
TO SHUBUTA MISSISSIPPI TO BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

NUMEROUS SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT ALONG THIS LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
625 PM CST FRI NOV 4 1988

   ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...
        ...TORNADO WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MISSISSIPPI...

AT 620 PM...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE IN
CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS
EXTEND FROM NEAR KOSCUISKO TO JACKSON TO WOODVILLE. ONE OF THE
STORMS IN THIS BAND AT BENTONIA DROPPED PEA SIZED HAIL. THE
STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

OTHER STRONG STORMS CONTINUE FROM NEAR LAUREL TO RALEIGH.

OVERALL...THE STORMS HAVE WEAKENED DURING THE LAST HOUR...BUT THE
POTENTIAL FOR THE STORMS TO INCREASE EXISTS..[.ESPECIALLY ACROSS
THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE.

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
630 PM CST FRI NOV 4 1988

DELAYED REPORT FROM MISSISSIPPI EOC.

430 PM CST...LITTLE ROCK...NEWTON COUNTY...ONE HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
        `     DESTROYED. ONE HOUSE ROOF AND PORCH DAMAGE. NUMEROUS TREES
             DOWN.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
650 PM CST FRI NOV 4 1988

 ...TORNADO WATCHES NUMBER 458 AND 459 HAVE BEEN CANCELLED...

TORNADO WATCHES NUMBER 458 AND 459 FOR NORTH MISSISSIPPI HAVE BEEN
CANCELLED.  HOWEVER...TORNADO WATCHES NUMBER 460 AND 461 WHICH ARE
GENERALLY SOUTH OF A HOLLANDALE TO MACON LINE REMAIN IN EFFECT.

OVERALL...THE STORMS HAVE WEAKENED DURING THE LAST HOUR...BUT THE
POTENTIAL FOR THE STORMS TO INCREASE EXISTS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS
THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
707 PM CST FRI NOV 4 1988

TORNADO WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...
GENERALLY SOUTH OF A HOLLANDALE TO MACON LINE.

AT 705 PM...RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF
CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
IN JONES AND SOUTHERN JASPER COUNTIES...AND ALSO ALONG THE PEARL RIVER
BETWEEN JACKSON AND CARTHAGE.

ANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS STILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. MOVEMENT WAS GENERALLY EAST AT 25 MPH.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
800 PM CST FRI NOV 4 1988

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 460 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH
MISSISSIPPI WEST OF A LINE FROM PELAHATCHIE TO WOODVILLE.  HOWEVER...THE
WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT EAST OF THIS LINE UNTIL 9PM.

AT 8 PM...JACKSON RADAR WAS CONTINUING TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS SOUTH MISSISSIPPI IN THE WATCH AREA.  THE STRONGEST THUNDER-
STORMS WERE FROM LIBERTY TO COLUMBIA.

THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.