Weather.com - Jeff Ayres, The Clarion-Ledger/AP
Lightning steaks across the sky behind the Young Meadows Presbyterian Church in Montgomery, Ala., Monday, March 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
PEARL, Miss. — The Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers Training Academy in Pearl isn't the most aesthetically appealing place to train officers these days, its director, Pat Cronin, concedes.
The March 18 hailstorms that struck metro Jackson destroyed 87 law enforcement and civilian vehicles parked at the academy when the storms hit, punched holes in roofing membrane above the gymnasium and smashed through more than 100 windows and skylights throughout the complex.
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