Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Jackson, MS

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
 310 PM CST FRI DEC 21 1990

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 784 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST AND INCLUDES
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...JASPER...NESHOBA...
NEWTON...WINSTON...JONES.

 AT 300 PM CST RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR VICKSBURG TO NEAR UNION TO NEAR
LOUISVILLE MIQSSISSIPPI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
409 PM CST FRI DEC 21 1990

...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR MUCH OF
MISSISSIPPI...

AT 405 PM A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED JUST ACROSS THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF NATCHEZ. THIS
THUNDERSTORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCE DAMAGE IN LOUISIANA. IT IS MOVING TO
THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND SHOULD CROSS OVER THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
INTO FAYETTE COUNTY AND THEN TRACK TOWARD PORT GIBSON.

THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY REQUIRE A WARNING SO PEOPLE IN FAYETTE AND
CLAIBORNE COUNTIES SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO NOAA RADIO OR THEIR
LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATION AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF NEEDED.