The National Weather Service confirmed a twister occurred in Fayette County Sunday morning.
The NWS says a short-lived EF-0 occurred on and round Acton Drive in Fayette County round 4:38 p.m. The estimated wind velocity was roughly 80 miles per hour.
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After storms moved via metro Atlanta and northern Georgia in a single day Saturday into Sunday morning, a number of communities reported harm.
Strong winds mixed with heavy rain precipitated timber to fall throughout the Atlanta metro space, a lot of them on energy strains and houses.
Channel 2’s Eryn Rogers is alongside Fairburn Road in Douglas County the place a number of timber have been uprooted and fell on a number of houses and blocked the primary highway.
Crews labored all morning to clear different lanes blocked by timber.
Channel 2 motion information confirmed experiences of a tree falling on a house alongside Andiron Court in DeKalb County.
Early Sunday morning, Rogers was additionally at a home fireplace on Nancy Creek Road in northern Atlanta, the place energy strains had additionally fallen. Fortunately the operators managed to place out the flames and nobody was injured.
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Viewers additionally shared pictures and movies of downed timber on energy strains and houses in Cherokee, Jasper and Lamar counties.
According to Georgia Power, at the least 21,000 of their clients are presently with out energy in metro Atlanta. More than 12,000 of these clients dwell in Fulton County.
The Georgia Electric Membership Corporation experiences that one other 8,700 individuals in metro Atlanta are with out electrical energy.
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