The Nation - News from Nov. 21, 1988

Nearly two dozen tornadoes slashed through the South, killing a man and an infant in Mississippi, destroying homes in Alabama and Arkansas and wiping out 500 acres of forest in Tennessee, officials said. The National Weather Service said there were 23 sightings of tornadoes over the lower Mississippi Valley over the weekend. Fierce winds and large hail also battered the region. A tornado at Nettleton, Miss., killed a 37-year-old man and an unidentified 17-month-old infant and injured at least 10 others, authorities said. Four mobile homes were destroyed and at least four houses were damaged. The man was killed when the twister “blew him some 500 yards from his trailer,” a dispatcher in the Lee County Sheriff’s Office reported. In Tuscaloosa, Ala., a tornado heavily damaged 15 homes and injured seven people.