Tornado Warning 60, NWS Jackson, MS

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1025 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1989

REPORT JUST IN FROM MISSISSIPPI EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...SOUTHBOUND LANE
OF HIGHWAY 49 NORTH OF BROOKLYN IN FORREkST COUNTY HAS WASHED OUT.  LANE
WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL FRIDAY.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMAY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1030 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1989

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 437 REMAINS IN EFFECT EAST OF A FOREST TO MCCOMB
   LINE UNTIL 2 PM...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES EAST OF A LOUISVILLE TO PICYUNE LINE...

AT 1025 AM CDT...RAIN ALONG WITH EMBEDDED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED
OVER MOST OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.  THE STRONGEST THUNDER-
STORMS IN THIS AREA WERsE NEAR BAY SPRINGS AND NEAR HATTIESBURG.

INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1105 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1989

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 437 REMAINS IN EFFECT EAST OF A FOREST TO MCCOMB
   LINE UNTIL 2 PM...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES EAST OF A LOUISVILLE TO PICYUNE LINE...

AT 1100 AM CDT...AN AREA OF RAIN WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WAS
LOCATED OVER EASTCENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI GENERALLY EAST OF A
LINE FROM KOSCIUSKO TO MERIDIAN TO COLUMBIA.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE
LOCATED NEAR DE KALB...ELLISVILLE...COLLINS...AND COLUMBIA.  EVEN THOUGH
THESE STORMS ARE NOT SEVERE...BRIEFLY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS CAN
BE EXPECTED AS THEY MOVE TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MORNING'S RAIN AND
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING THROUGH SOUTH
MISSISSIPPI...AND WILL GRADUALLY PUSH THROUGH THE STATE DURING THE NEXT
FEW HOURS.  AS IT DOES...PRECIPITATION WILL DIMINISH FROM THE WEST.
THE WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE IS ALREADY NEARLY RAIN-FREE.

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
1125 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1989

1045 AM CDT...SMALL TORNADO IN ELLISVILLE MISSISSIPPI...10 MILES
           SOUTHWEST OF LAUREL IN JONES COUNTY. DAMAGE TO A
           HOUSE...NUMEROUS TRESS DOWN...CARS DAMAGED AT
           JUNIOR COLLEGE. REPORTED BY JONES C.D.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
 1145 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1989

 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 437 IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM CDT.
FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY.

AT 1145 AM CDT MERIDIAN RADAR INDICATED A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
AND A LARGE AREA OF RAIN ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR
BIRMINGHAM TO GROVE HILL ALABAMA TO TYLERTOWN MISSISSIPPI.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
COVERAGE AND INTENSITY DECREASED DURING THE PAST HOUR. <<

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1215 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1989

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #437 CANCELLED FOR SEVERAL MORE COUNTIES...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT WEST OF A LINE
FROM MERIDIAN TO TYLERTOWN.  IT REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF
EASTCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 2 PM.

AT 1210 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG AND EAST OF
A LINE FROM NEAR LAUREL" TO HATTIESBURG TO JUST EAST OF COLUMBIA AND
WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.  NO SIGNIFICANT PRECIP-
ITATION WAS OCCURRING ANYWHERE ELSE OVER MISSISSIPPI.