PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
442 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2005

...PRELIMINARY TORNADO DAMAGE REPORTS FROM THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL
STORM CINDY...

STRONG STORMS MOVED INTO PORTIONS OF WEST AND CENTRAL GEORGIA
WEDNESDAY NIGHT BRINGING FLOODING RAINS...TORNADOES AND DAMAGING
THUNDERSTORM WINDS.  THE STORMS SPAWNED AT LEAST SIX TORNADOES.

THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENTS OF THE DAMAGE WHICH
OCCURED WEDNESDAY EVENING.  ADJUSTMENTS TO THE TIME AND FUJITA SCALE
(F-SCALE) RATINGS MAY BE NECESSARY AS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS
COLLECTED.

THE FIRST CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS A WEAK F0 TORNADO WHICH BRIEFLY
TOUCHED DOWN 1 MILE SOUTH OF ROCKY MOUNT (MERIWETHER COUNTY) AND
CAUSED MODERATE TREE DAMAGE AND DAMAGED SEVERAL OUTBUILDINGS.  TWO
HOMES RECEIVED MINOR DAMAGE FROM FALLING TREES.  THE DAMAGE PATH WAS
1/4 MILE LONG AND 100 YARDS WIDE.  THE TORNADO OCCURRED AT
APPROXIMATELY 6:30 P.M.

A SECOND TORNADO FORMED FROM A NEW THUNDERSTORM AND CAUSED F0 DAMAGE
IN SOUTHEAST COWETA COUNTY ON OLD NUMBER 85 HIGHWAY...APPROXIMATELY 3
MILES NORTH OF HARALSON.  DAMAGE WAS MINOR AND LIMITED TO TREES.  THE
TORNADO WAS 50 YARDS WIDE AND HAD A PATH OF 100 YARDS.  TIME OF THE
TORNADO WAS ABOUT 9:00 P.M.

A THIRD TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN IN FAYETTE COUNTY TO CAUSE F0
DAMAGE IN THE HILO ROAD AREA...ABOUT TWO MILES SOUTHEAST OF
FAYETTEVILLE.  DAMAGE OCCURRED AROUND 9:00 P.M. DOWNING NUMEROUS
TREES...MANY ON HOMES AND VEHICLES.  DAMAGE PATH WAS 1 MILE LONG AND
1/4 MILE WIDE. 

THE FOURTH CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS THE STRONGEST OF THE EVENING.  IT
FORMED JUST A FEW HUNDRED YARDS SOUTH OF MCDONOUGH STREET IN HENRY
COUNTY AT THE ATLANTA MOTOR SPEEDWAY IN HAMPTON. THIS TORNADO WAS
ESTIMATED AT F2 IN STRENGTH...PACKED WINDS AROUND 120 MPH AND DID
OVER 40 MILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGE TO THE ATLANTA MOTOR SPEEDWAY AND
THE TARA FIELD AIRPORT.  THE TORNADO CENTER LINE CROSSED THE WESTERN
BANK OF THE RACETRACK.  THE TORNADO WAS ESTIMATED AT 1/2 MILE WIDE AT
IT ONSET AND THEN NARROWED AS IT MOVED TO THE NORTH. IT THEN CURVED
EAST OF LOVEJOY...THEN NORTH ACROSS THE EDGAR BLALOCK RAW WATER
RESERVE...AND FINALLY TURNED NORTHWEST AND LIFTED NEAR JODECO ROAD IN
CLAYTON COUNTY.  TOTAL PATH LENGTH WAS APPROXIMATELY 9 MILES.

THE FIFTH TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN 1 MILES WEST OF MCDONOUGH JUST
EAST OF I-75.  THIS WAS AN F0 TORNADO THAT WAS 200 YARDS WIDE AND 1/2
MILE LONG.  MODERATE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE WAS DONE TO A CHURCH AND
SURROUNDING HOMES.  TIME OF THE TORNADO WAS 9:55 P.M.

THE SIXTH AND FINAL CONFIRMED TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN 4 MILES NORTHWEST
OF MCDONOUGH ON EAST LAKE ROAD DOING DAMAGE FOR 3 MILES.  THE DAMAGE
PATH WAS 300 YARDS WIDE AND WAS AT LEAST F1 IN INTENSITY.  TIME OF
THIS TORNADO WAS APPROXIMATELY 10:00 P.M.  

NO FATALITIES OR INJURIES WERE REPORTED WITH ANY OF THESE TORNADOES.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADOES...THERE WERE NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TREES
DOWNED THROUGHOUT THE AREA AS WELL AS SIGNIFICANT LOCAL FLOODING IN
PEACHTREE CITY AND THE ATLANTA METROPOLITAN AREA.  ONE FATALITY WAS
ATTRIBUTED TO FLOODING IN PEACHTREE CITY.

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