Hattiesburg American from Hattiesburg, Mississippi • 10

JU HATTIESBURG AMERICAN MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1992 PAGE 10A Three-day outlook for southeast Mississippi Monday Tuesday Wednesday North Mississippi Cloudy skies today, high near 58. Tonight will be cloudy, 50 percent chance of rain and a low near 50. Tuesday, 60 percent chance of rain, high near 65. Mostly sunny Partly cloudy Hi-Mid 60s Lo-Near40 Partly cloudy Hi-Mid 60s Lo-Near40 Hi-Mid 70s Lo-Mid 40s Regional Temps Climate Readings Sunday's figures: HI Lo Pre 63 50 62 67 65 1.22 71 65 1.40 Humidity. 7 p.m.

...41 Local Forecast The Laurel-Hattiesburg area can expect partly sunny skies today. Tonight and Tuesday, 60 percent chance ot rain. P7T--- MONDAY'S cv wJkm I nrVy, HIGHS rJ, Agriculture. No rain today. Rain will average 1-2 inches tonight and Tuesday.

Drying potential will be low. Expect 6-7 hours of sunshine today and 2 hours or less Tuesday. 72 61 79 61 14 56 24-hour high 70 24-hour low 42 Wind, 7 p.m. ...3 mph Jackson Tupelo Birmingham Mobile Montgomery Baton Rouge Lake Charles New Orleans Shreveport 59 56 92 60 46 .08 66 57 55 50 44 1 09 Barometer 29 97 24-hour rain 0.00 Oxford Tupelo I Starkville Greenville Vicksurg MeridiarlL Jackson Hatiesburg rBiloxif GutfportiX Central Mississippi Partly sunny skies today, high near 62. Tonight will be cloudy, 70 percent chance of rain, low of 55.

Tuesday, 60 percent chance of rain, high of 70. National Temps River Stages Leaf at Petal 8.4 Pearl at Columbia NA Mississippi at Vicksburg ....21.5 Pascagoula at Merrill 8.0 Coastal Tides High Amount Low Amount Mississippi River (Southwest Pass) 7:49 m. 1.7 6:19 i rn. -05. B'bi Bay 9:51 p.m.

2 4 1:30 la -06. Gulf Coast Forecast Apalachicola to Gulfport: Today winds will be from the west at 10 knots. Seas will be 1-3 feet and smooth in protected waters. Tonight winds will be east near 10 knots. Seas will be 1-3 feet with a light chop.

Sunset Today Sunrise Tomorrow 6:33 Hi Lo Pre 42 16 00 70 59 .68 65 54 .17 61 56 .37 71 63 .14 43 39 .12 68 55 1.03 51 49 1.11 53 40 .00 34 09 00 45 43 38 60 42 .00 34 32 .35 58 37 ,00 51 42 100 68 50 .00 74 59 1 08 60 60 84 78 74 .04 42 38 .10 73 56 63 65 56 .14 83 72 .10 65 57 .41 66 47 00 63 55 34 52 43 1 18 65 40 00 66 47 .00 61 50 27 64 53 06 5:01 Anchorage Atlanta Baltimore Boston CtwIolte.N Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas-R Worth Denver Detroit Houston Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach Milwaukee Nashville New York Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh St Louis San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Wash C. TUESDAY'S LOWS Xf I if pressure area 24-hour Weather South Mississippi Today expect partly sunny skies with a high of 65. Tonight, 70 percent chance of rain with a low near 60. Tuesday, 60 percent chance of rain with a high near 77. American readers may obtain complete.

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Mass. li SURVEY FROM page 1A I mil i ii iiinm MJf-mtr Path of death Twenty people died and hundreds were injured over the weekend as tornadoes ripped across the South. Kentucky Tennessee ne killed and Boy, 11, killed in nine injured in mobile home Carroll County. near foone. The storm system swept through the county shortly before midnight, leveling houses, uprooting trees and downing hundreds of power and telephone poles.

At least 86 people were injured in the county, most around Brandon and to the south in Florence, Wilkinson said. Sixty homes and dozens of mobile homes were damaged. "It just whished through here like slicing hot butter," Constable Martin Mann said. "We've got two-story homes not bigger than a bag of firewood. They're wiped out." After the storm passed, 12,000 person were without power, most in the Brandon area and scattered rural sections of the state.

Edd Jussely, spokesman for Mississippi Power Light said power was restored for all but about 550 all in Rankin County by tories of narrow escapes were many. The mobile home shared by Sheilia Rowell, her husband and two daughters was flipped on its roof. "We landed right up against the window," Rowell, 30, said. "It was all we could do to hold onto approval of the request in three to four days. "We will get some relief, but some people will never be the same again," Fordice said.

He praised Mississippians who responded with an outpouring of help for victims. "It is heartening to see," he said. The storms were caused by a low pressure system that moved east and north from Texas toward the eastern Great Lakes, said Henry Steigerwaldt, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Indianapolis. The conditions, unusual for November, were caused by a low-moving southern flow of moist air off the Gulf of Mexico that combined with much colder westerly winds higher in the atmosphere, he said. "So if you've got cold above and warm below, you have an unstable situation.

That's what happened. Everything got together in the right ingredients," Steigerwaldt said. The combination was most deadly in Rankin County, but could have been much worse. "It's unbelievable. We're lucky we didn't lose more lives than we did," said W.L.

Whittington, rV The storm bashed Rankin Xf 1 fx'EasWven' I County's affluent Easthaven -ef Path Of subdivision shortly before Jf wi i midnight Saturday, killing jrf tOmflHO oj four, snaping 100-year-old IWIIIOUU y7 fa trees into kindling, leveling mmhJ i -r5 $200,000 homes and lA 1 x(r--r wl" scattering debris for miles. "-lBn Rd. JLd 1 V20 "--sr: The storm demolished all but 47) I 11 iss about four of 30 mobile rf 1 11 Martin Rd homes at Duncan's Mobile IHaBaiBBHl Home Sales and Senice 11 umm I Par- Fur were killed, and 11 I several others Injured. 11 Dr 1 jJL" I PELAHATCHIE J-rf BRANDON Home Rd. (43) COUNTY "lH l1 Rd FORENCE qB 1 The storm cut a path through 42 scale in I Traylor Road just off Seventh I (46; I Day Adventist Road south of I lmmmmmmmmm Florence.

I V4W I Georgia Mississippi Storms killed 15, including 10 in Brandon, and injured at least 200. One killed in White Plains, two in Lumpkin County. Dozens injured, roofs blown off buildings, mobile nomes overturned. Tractor-trailers blown off I-75 near Atlanta. Alabama Five people injured and trees, power lines down; 16,000 homes without electricity.

Julie Stacey and Gary Visgaitis, USA TODAY mayor of Brandon. The tornado smashed through -a mobile home park and then skipped across the city of about 10,000 to an upscale neighborhood. At the mobile home park, rescue workers used doors from smashed houses as makeshift stretchers, said Charlie Wilkinson, civil defense director for Rankin County. each other." Two-year-old Brittany escaped unharmed, daughter Lisa, 13, was treated for cuts and bruises. "It was the most terrifying thing I've ever lived through," Rowell said.

Although Rowell's family had insurance, it was the last thing on Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Rankin, Scott, Simpson, Smith and Webster. Godfrey Jones, The Clarion-Ledger Mount Carmel area hit hard by tornado's wind i i if 1 I 1 a -tn'-j- iiii 1I.I-T.M 11 MinjmimuL The Red Cross made arrangements to shelter tornado victims at Carriage Inn in Prentiss, he said. When the storm roared into Covington County, it roughly followed Mississippi 35, Covington County Sheriff Carl Leonard said. "It came all the way across the county," Leonard said. "Highway 35 was closed all the way through, and county roads were blocked.

Everything got opened up yesterday. We didn't have any fatalities, but we had some injuries." The storm missed the main part of Mount Olive, passing to the south of town, Leonard said. Leonard couldn't hear the tornado, although he was awake at his home in Mount Olive. "I'd just dropped off to sleep and got a call," he said. Leonard telephoned his son, whose home was near the path of the tornado, he said.

"It was just passing through," the sheriff said. "I called him on the telephone. He said it was roaring, and then we got cut off. I just knew he was blowing away." Leonard headed for his son's home, he said. "I made a beeline out 35," Leonard said.

"We had to saw our way through. I met him coming to me." The destruction almost was unbelievable, although his son's home was not damaged, the sheriff said. "I don't how some of them came he said. "The houses were just blown away. I don't know how they survived." Crews from AAA Ambulance in Hattiesburg rushed to Mount Olive to assist, Courtney said.

"We sent two to Covington County," she said. "As soon as we started clearing from there, we sent three to Jackson, but two were canceled before they got there. When we were coming back from Jackson, it was just beginning to get daylight and we could see the destruction." By JANET BRASWELL AMERICAN Senior Writer Saturday night's tornado left an awesome trail of damage through Jefferson Davis and Covington counties, disaster workers said. The storm touched down south of Prentiss and roared to the northeast, through the Mount Carmel community of Jefferson Davis County before continuing its destruction in Covington County. "Several houses were demolished," said Mary O'Connell.

"Over in the Mount Carmel area and around there, houses were just to the ground. It wasn't a pretty sight, I tell you." Her husband, Johnny, is president of the Jefferson Davi6 County Board of Supervisors. He and the other supervisors worked around the clock to clear debris, she said. "It was pretty awesome," said Beverly Courtney, director of operations for AAA Ambulance. "It's difficult to realize what it looks like until you really see it." She and other medics were sent to Mount Olive to help with rescue work.

The tornado first hit about five or six miles south of Prentiss, along Mississippi 13, Jefferson Davis-Marion County. Civil Defense Director Charlie Conerly said. "It continued on a north-east path, right across Highway 42, through the Mount Carmel community," Conerly said. "There were five injuries, the last report I had. When I first got up there, there were a couple of people unaccounted for.

But, by the time we got our lights set up, everybody was accounted for." Damage in Jefferson Davis County included 10 homes and four mobile homes that were destroyed, 15 homes with major damage and seven with minor damage. "A lady had a beauty shop that was destroyed," Conerly said. "There were a bunch of barns damaged, but we really didn't count all of them." AP photo Preston Roberts, right, holds his auto title after it was returned to him by Phylis Aired, center, and Scott Lippiatt after a tornado blew it across a lake and into some woods Sunday near Brandon. Fifteen people lost their lives and at least another 150 were injured when midnight storms raked across the central part of the state. Roberts' mobile home was destroyed by the storm..