Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-04-29
STORMY WEATHER
in this SECTION
WEATHER BUREAU ISSUES IN
TEREsTlNe SUMMARY.
Rainfall For the Past Week Was
Enormous in Most counties.-HaiI
Fell copiousIy-cycIone Clouds
Were Observed.
Clouds


Vicksburg, April 2S.-The weather
bureau has issued the following
summary for the past week:
Like the three preceding weeks, the
weather was unseasonably warm, the
mean temperature being 5 degrees
above the normal. AS a rule, the
temperature was quite uniform from
day to day; the highest readings gen.
orally occurred Sunday afternoon,
when Brookhaven and Natchez re-
ported 90. degrees, but decided
change to cooler took place Sunday
night, and over the greater portion of
the state readings were in the forties
Monday morning
The average rainfall, as determined
from the reports of 20 well distributed
stations, was 2.S3 inches, or OFT inch
more than that Of the preceding
Eweek. Monday Tuesday and Thurs
day we're partly cloudy and show
cry, and some very heavy rains fell in
the southern portion of the state
Tuesday. Severe thunderstorms were
general Friday, occurring over the
northern and western portions of the
state in the morning and in the south
eastern portion in the afternoon; hail,
heavy rains and destructively high
winds occurred at many places. The
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inches at Jackson, 4.S6 inches at Hat.
tiesburg and $40 at Waynesboro and
6.6S inches at Tchula. Over 10 inches
of rain have fallen at Waynesboro
. within the last IA days.
. There was about the normal amount
. of sunshine.
Southern District.
| CLAIBORNE, Port Gibson-The ex
Y tremes of temperature were So de-
grees and A degrees and the total
$ rainfall 315 inches-H. H. Crisler.
K COPIAH, Hazlehurst-Rain on three
l. days gave a total of 1888 inches;
there was much stormy weather.
!, b. Cranberry
SMITH, Taylorville-Heavy rains
It fell in portions of the county, accom-
panied by hail.. S. Eaton.
d JASPER, Alto-Heavy rains fel
3 Tuesday and Friday; on the latte
day there was a shower of greer
1t leaves that were probably carried int
:: the clouds by a tornado.-F. l. Cook
WAYNE, Waynesboro-The tota
v rainfall was GAO inches, 400 inche
n. of. this amount falling Friday ever
IN ing; on that day. at about $3.50 p. m
a tornado wrought considerable d.
struction at Winchester, town
miles south of this placer. S. Burk'
LINCOLN, Brookhaven-The weatl
er was warm until Sunday afternoo
when there was a change to cooler
the rainfall was heavy.-W. R. Bee.
JEFFERSON, Fayetteville tot
rainfall was 4:34 inches; a tornat
passed through the western porto
of the county Friday.-T. L. Darden.
ADAMS, Natchez-The weather w
rainy; tornado past through I
central portion of the county Frid
doing great damage to life and pre-
erty; hailstones three-fourths inch
, diameter fell in Natchez.-E. s. We
MARION, Goss-Showery weatf
prevailed until Friday, when the
was a regular downpour; the temp
AZURE was lower Sunday and Mond
,I-Jno. L. Carlisle.
FORREST, Hattiesburg-4.S2 incl
of rs.a fe.! Friday; on that day
about 1:40 p. N, tornado cloud v
observed in southerly direction
T. G. Spence.
HARRISON, Biloxi-Violent wi
storms occurred Friday and Saturds
on the latter date 2.24 inches of r
fell.--Miss M. Josie Pope.
HANCOCK, Logtown-High tenn
AZURE continued and there was am
sunshine.-Miss Annette Koch.