Multiple tornadoes touch down across Georgia during heavy weekend storms

For about 3 miles, the twister traveled mostly over water as it moved north and damaged some trees on Highway 60 and at an apartment complex on North Cliff Colony Drive, the NWS said. Additional trees were uprooted or had snapped on Basin Road, Cochran Road and Willow Trace. Officials said it was on the ground for about nine minutes.

“Thankfully, no structural damage happened,” the Weather Service said.

The first threat of severe weather ended around 11:30 p.m. Friday, though scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms continued to move through the area overnight, according to the NWS.

Other damage was reported in Forsyth County, where a roof collapsed at a business, injuring four employees, the fire department said.

By early Saturday, a tree fell onto a home on Mims Street near Martin Luther King Jr. and Westview drives in southwest Atlanta, according to fire department spokesperson Anare Holmes.

A 13-year-old girl was killed, and two others — identified as her mother and grandmother — were taken to the hospital and were in stable condition, officials said. At least six people lived at the home.

Showers lingered in the metro area until about 3 p.m. before becoming more scattered and continuing to shift east. Another round of storms ramped up Saturday evening and lingered into Sunday morning.

While most of the severe weather threat ended by 1 a.m., a supercell storm near Columbus spawned another twister just after 9 p.m. Sunday.

The EF1 tornado touched down in Talbot County between the cities of Shiloh and Woodland, about 35 miles northeast of Columbus. Its 95 mph winds downed several trees and caused damage to nearly a dozen homes as it spun for just under 6 miles along a 200-yard-wide path.