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Thu., May 9, 2013 4:46pm
Three months after a tornado hit Bartow County, volunteers are still helping put the city of Adairsville back together.
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Mon., April 29, 2013 6:43pm
The National Weather Service has confirmed a tornado touched down in Coweta County. Vaughn Smith, a meteorologist based in Peachtree City, says the EF-0 tornado had a top wind speed of 85 mph Sunday afternoon. Tornadoes range from EF-0 to the most severe EF-5.
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Mon., April 15, 2013 9:00am
Forecasters say two tornadoes touched down in Georgia during a recent storm system, damaging homes in western and north Georgia. No serious injuries or deaths were reported.
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Mon., February 11, 2013 7:44pm
Several agencies, including the Red Cross and the U.S. Small Business Administration, are offering assistance to people in north Georgia who lost property in a recent tornado. Two disaster assistance centers opened Monday afternoon following the Jan. 30 tornado that killed a man in Adairsville.
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Fri., February 8, 2013 4:23pm
Volunteers are making one final push Saturday to clean up the remaining debris in Adairsville after a tornado last week tore through part of the city.
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Mon., February 4, 2013 10:02am
The mayor of Adairsville says more than 1,000 volunteers helped with tornado cleanup in the north Georgia city this weekend. Volunteers arrived Saturday and Sunday to chop up trees and remove debris left from a tornado Wednesday.
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Fri., February 1, 2013 7:46pm
State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler has announced the Georgia Department of Labor will offer assistance to workers who are temporarily out of a job or have been laid off in the wake of Wednesday's storm. Butler says the department of labor's Cartersville Career Center will set up two temporary assistance centers in Adairsville between Feb. 5 and 14.
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Fri., February 1, 2013 9:03am
Authorities believe a tornado swelled to 900 yards wide -- more than four times the width of the Georgia Dome -- as it tore across northwest Georgia for nearly 22 miles. National Weather Service officials said the Wednesday twister had an estimated peak wind speed of 160 mph when it slammed into Adairsville.
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Thu., January 31, 2013 11:00am
State Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens is offering tips to help Georgians file claims associated with the storm system that tore through the state Wednesday.
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Wed., January 30, 2013 2:33pm
Bartow County Emergency Management officials have confirmed that an Adairsville man died when a possible tornado hit his mobile home.
