Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Memphis, TN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
305  PM CST SAT NOV 19 1988

  ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8:00 PM THIS EVENING...

AT 255 PM CST...TUPELO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING
SCATTERED RAINSHOWER ACTIVITY OVER ALL OF THE NORTHWESTERN SECTION
OF MISSISSIPPI WHERE THE TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT AT THIS TIME. NO
STRONG DEVELOPMENT WAS INDICATED.

ELSEWHWERE OVER NORTH MISSISSIPPI...RADAR WAS INDICATING A RATHER
LARGE AREA OF WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WITH EMBEDDED RAINSHOWERS AND
THUNDERSHOWERS. THE HEAVIEST CONCENTRATIONS OF THUNDERSHOWER
ACTIVITY WAS INDICATED JUST EAST OF FULTON IN CENTRAL ITAWAMBA
COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MIES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TELEVISION OR RADIO FOR
FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION AS
CONDITIONS WARRANT.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
615 PM CST SAT NOV 19 1988

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 492 IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR
NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...

AT 610 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...PRENTISS...TISHOMINGO AND NORTHERN ITAWAMBA. THE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

MORE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI
RIVER DURING THE LAST HOUR. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE
PROMPTED THE ISSUANCE OF WARNINGS FOR SOME OF THE WESTERN COUNTIES.

STAY TUNE FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND MAKE PLANS TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER
IF AND WHEN A WARNING IS ISSUED OR THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.