National Weather Service confirms at least 5 tornadoes touched down in Georgia last week
The National Weather Service has confirmed that at least five tornadoes touched down in Georgia during strong storms last week.
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Three people in Georgia were killed, including a 5-year-old boy, during the storms on Thursday. The child, Egan Jeffcoat, was killed when a tree fell on his mother’s car in Butts County.
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A 32-year-old lineman, Jesse Maxwell, was working on a bucket truck in Jasper County when a limb snapped back and hit him in the head, killing him. A GDOT worker in Walker County was also killed. The employee, who hasn’t been identified, was trying to remove a fallen tree from the road in Lafayette when the tree shifted and landed on the worker.
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On Monday, the NWS added two more confirmed tornadoes to the list, bringing the total to five. They are as follows:
An EF-1 in Cobb County
An EF-2 in Meriwether, Pike and Spalding counties
An EF -1 in southwest Spalding County
An EF-2 in northwest Troup County
An EF-1 in Warren and McDuffie counties
