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Weather Service: 8 Tornadoes Hit Ga.
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (AP) The National Weather Service says it has confirmed eight tornadoes from the severe storms that swept across Georgia on Good Friday.
The worst storm left one person hurt in Hancock County. The EF3 storm hit between Sparta and Culverton with winds at 160 MPH.
The confirmed tornadoes included an EF2 tornado in Chattooga County in Northwest Georgia. That storm was 200 yards wide with 120 MPH winds. It touched down in the Summerville area and caused considerable damage to at least 30 homes and business.
EF1 storms hit in Crisp, Pickens, Sumter, and Chattahoochee counties and also an ef0 in Chattahoochee and Hancock . The Weather Service said it still had teams checking on possible tornadoes in Dooley and Wilcox counties.
There were no reports of deaths in Georgia.
Ken Davis of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency said Saturday that a nursing home in Richmond County had its roof destroyed, with patients being moved to hospitals in the area. He said there were no reports of injuries.
He said GEMA also had reports of homes destroyed or damaged in Burke, Putnam, Terrell, Crisp, Columbia, Wilcox and Hancock counties. Davis said there were some injuries, but no deaths reported.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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