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radars near latitude 30.6 north, longitude 89.5 west or 10 to 15 miles east of Picayune, Mississippi. Highest winds were estimated at 140 miles per hour near the center along the Mississippi coast. Keesler Air Force Base at Biloxi reported 20-foot tides and 125-to-l 50-mile per hour winds at 10:30 p.m. CDT the previous evening. A 3 a.m. bulletin substantially repeated the advisory.
At 5 a.m. CDT, Monday, Aug. 18, Advisory Number Nineteen was issued. It found the hurricane continuing to weaken, and predicted a more rapid weakening as the storm moved northward through Mississippi at about 15 miles per hour. An 8 a.m. bulletin said warnings along the northern Gulf coast would be discontinued at 11 a.m. CDT. Highest winds at that time were estimated at 80 miles an
hour, tides were falling along the coast, and many areas were still inundated. Winds and tides were forecast to continue diminishing through the day. Heavy rains with local accumulations of five to eight inches were expected in northern Mississippi that day and evening, and heavy rain was predicted to spread into western Tennessee and western Kentucky that night and the following day.
Advisory Number Twenty was issued at 11 a.m. Monday, August 18 CDT. It reported the storm continuing to weaken as she moved northward through central Mississippi.
Warnings were discontinued along the northern Gulf Coast at 11 a.m. CDT. It reported tides falling along the coast, with many areas still inundated. It stated that winds and tides would continue to diminish that day and night.
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