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Georgia Tornadoes
| April 4, 1804 |
Tornado kills 11 people in the Augusta, Georgia area
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| August 22, 1821 |
Tornado strikes Tybee Island, smashing a portion of the U. S. Army barracks on the island
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| February 19, 1884 |
The Southeast United States is struck by a series of more than 50 tornadoes, including 37 rated F2 or greater.
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Georgia Tornadoes |
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Washington County, Georgia |
| June 1, 1903 |
Tornado strikes Gainesville, Georgia and Hall County
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Georgia Tornadoes |
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Hall County, Georgia |
| April 6, 1906 |
Tornadoes strike North Georgia, striking Woodlands, (the estate of Godfrey Barnsley) and Gainesville, Georgia
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Godfrey Barnsley and Barnsley Gardens
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 24, 1908 |
Heavy thunderstorms spawn killer tornadoes across the Southeast United States (Lousiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia), killing a total of 230 people. Chickamauga battlefield infrastructure suffered considerable damage.
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| February 10, 1921 |
Gardner, Georgia, a small town about 35 miles north of Dublin, is destroyed by a tornado
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 2, 1936 |
Tornado strikes Crisp County, killing 36 people, mostly in the Cordele area. |
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Crisp County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 6, 1936 |
Tornado destroys downtown Gainesville |
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Hall County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 9, 1936 |
While travelling by train to Warm Springs, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives a brief address to Gainesville citizens from his rail car, shortly after a tornado struck the city
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 18, 1953 |
More than 300 people were injured by a tornado in Muscogee County, Georgia
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Georgia Tornadoes |
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Muscogee County, Georgia |
| April 30, 1953 |
A series of tornadoes in Peach, Houstoun, Marion, Twiggs and Bibb Counties left 310 people injured, 20 people dead (some sources say 19) and more than 15 million dollars in property damage, including heavy damage to Warner-Robbins Air Force Base
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Bibb County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 5, 1957 |
Tornadoes strike Lamar, Schley, Macon, Peach, Warren, Columbia, Colquitt, Ware, and Chatham counties, killing 2 and injuring 6, with more than a million dollars in damage.
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Colquitt County, Georgia |
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Columbia County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
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Lamar County, Georgia |
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Schley County, Georgia |
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Macon County, Georgia |
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Peach County, Georgia |
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Warren County, Georgia |
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Ware County, Georgia |
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Chatham County, Georgia |
| January 21, 1959 |
Tornado strikes Chickamauga battlefield, knocking down 2,000 trees
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Georgia Tornadoes |
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Catoosa County, Georgia |
| March 31, 1961 |
F3 tornado strikes Dooly County, killing 1 and injuring 14. More than 2.5 million dollars in damage. Tornadoes also strike Schley, Houstoun, Pulaski, Bleckley, Laurens, Worth and Tattnall counties.
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Tattnall County, Georgia |
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Laurens County, Georgia |
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Houston County, Georgia |
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Schley County, Georgia |
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Dooly County, Georgia |
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Bleckly County, Georgia |
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Worth County, Georgia |
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Pulaski County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| January 20, 1963 |
More than 2.5 million dollars in damage is done in Clay County and a person is killed when an F1 tornado travels some 7 miles across the county.
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| December 24, 1964 |
In a 3-day string of bad weather around the Christmas holidays, tornadoes, thunderstorms and hail cause 2 deaths and injure 20. More than 10 million dollars in damage is the result of this storm system. Hardest hit were Jones County, where a tornado killed 2 and injured 16, and Meriwether County where 2.5 inches of hail fell in a short period of time.
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| May 16, 1966 |
11 people were injured in a tornado that touched down in Muscogee County Georgia, causing almost 3 million dollars of damage.
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Muscogee County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 18, 1969 |
28 people injured and 2 million dollars of property damage by a tornado in Coffee County
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Coffee County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 23, 1971 |
Two waves of storms, which included tornadoes that registered F3 on the Fujita-Pearson scale, swept through Georgia destroying more than a million dollars in property, killing one person and injuring 23. Counties affected were Polk, Gwinnett, Douglas, Dekalb, Carroll, Screven, Paulding, Randolph, Houstoun, Troup, Macon, Dooly, Sumter, Chatham, Lanier, Tattnall, and Wilcox.
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Wilcox County, Georgia |
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Douglas County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 29, 1971 |
An F2 tornado sets down in Grady County, causing 2.5 million in property damage
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Georgia Tornadoes |
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Grady County, Georgia |
| January 10, 1972 |
An F3 tornado sweeps through Fulton and Dekalb Counties, killing one person and injuring 9 while causing half a million dollars in property damage
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Fulton County, Georgia |
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DeKalb County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| March 31, 1973 |
Clayton, Walton, Oconee, Clarke, and Oglethorpe Counties report nearly a billion dollars in damage, more than a hundred injuries and two deaths from a strong storm with embedded tornadoes
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Clarke County, Georgia |
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Clayton County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| May 28, 1973 |
Clarke County suffers 25 million dollars in damage and 65 injured from a F3 tornado
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Clarke County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| December 13, 1973 |
At about 11:20am an F3 tornado strikes Hall County, near Gainesville, and causes 3.0 million in property damage, injuring 21
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| March 2, 1975 |
Sometimes called The Governor's Tornado, Atlanta's upscale north side, including the Governor's mansion, bears the brunt of tornadoes that killed three and caused 56 million dollars in damage
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| November 8, 1989 |
One person dies and 8 are injured when a series of 3 tornadoes strike Pineview, Georgia
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| March 29, 1991 |
Douglas and Cobb County were hit by F3 tornadoes as part of a much larger system. More than 50 million dollars damage was done, with 27 people injured
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Douglas County, Georgia |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| November 22, 1992 |
Storms, including at least two F4 tornadoes, account for more than 50 million dollars in property damage, 153 injured and 6 dead. Hardest hit were Cobb and Putnam Counties
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Putnam County, Georgia |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| March 27, 1994 |
The Palm Sunday Killer tornadoes destroy a church in Piedmont, AL (west of Cedartown) before killing 18 in Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| March 20, 1998 |
Tornadoes destroy homes in North Georgia, claiming 14 lives in Hall and White Counties
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Hall County, Georgia |
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White County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 8, 1998 |
Deadly tornadoes strike Marietta, Dunwoody, and Duluth
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Marietta, GA |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 15, 1998 |
Tornado strikes Dooly County |
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Dooly County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| September 3, 1998 |
Tornadoes spin-off of Hurricane Earl, damaging coastal homes and property. 4 people injured in Screven County as the result of one tornado
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Georgia Tornadoes |
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Screven County, Georgia |
| February 14, 2000 |
Tornadoes strike Camilla, Georgia, south of Albany
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Worth County, Georgia |
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Tornadoes kill 19 in Southwest Georgia |
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Mitchell County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
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Turner County, Georgia |
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Tift County, Georgia |
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Colquitt County, Georgia |
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Grady County, Georgia |
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Decatur County, Georgia |
| November 24, 2001 |
Tornado strikes Dade County, near State Road 157.
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Dade County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| March 20, 2003 |
Tornadoes strike Mitchell and Worth Counties
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Worth County, Georgia |
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Mitchell County, Georgia |
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Tornadoes strike Camilla and Bridgeboro |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| March 1, 2007 |
6 people die when an EF-2 tornado destroys a trailer park near Newton. |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
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Baker County, Georgia |
| March 1, 2007 |
Sumter County Regional Hospital in Americus is struck by a tornado, killing 2. |
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Sumter County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| March 14, 2008 |
A strong tornado strikes the Georgia World Congress Center, Phillips Arena, The Equitable Building, and the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill (now upscale condos). Nearby, the Georgia Dome suffers damage while the Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament is being held inside. Numerous minor injuries and one life-threatening injury are reported. |
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The Georgia Dome |
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2008 Georgia Bulldogs Basketball |
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2008 Georgia tornado outbreak |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
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DeKalb County, Georgia |
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Georgia World Congress Center
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| May 11, 2008 |
11 tornadoes touch down in the state of Georgia. |
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Bibb County, Georgia |
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Laurens County, Georgia |
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Johnson County, Georgia |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
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Clayton County, Georgia |
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Carroll County, Georgia |
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Gwinnett County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 27, 2011 |
Tornadoes strike Ringgold and Cedartown, killing 15 in Georgia and 295 throughout the South. |
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Catoosa County, Georgia |
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Polk County, Georgia |
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