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Weather service: 5 tornadoes struck metro Atlanta

By The Associated Press
Posted 7:30AM on Thursday 16th October 2014 ( 10 years ago )
ATLANTA (AP) Authorities say five tornadoes touched down in metro Atlanta Tuesday as a powerful line of thunderstorms passed over areas near the airport to the northern suburbs. <br /> <br /> The National Weather Service said the strongest of the tornadoes that struck Tuesday was a twister that traveled 7.5 miles through the northern suburbs of Alpharetta and Milton. Crews that surveyed damage estimated that tornado's maximum wind speed at 105 mph. <br /> <br /> The weather service said the five tornadoes, which began with a pair of twisters in the East Point and Camp Creek Parkway area near Atlanta's southern edge, were all spawned by the same storm. <br /> <br /> Earlier Tuesday, a separate tornado touched down near the west Georgia town of Shiloh in the pre-dawn hours. <br /> <br /> No serious injuries were reported in the Georgia tornadoes.

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