Tornadoes kill 19 in Southwest Georgia
Sunday evening the Weather Center in Tallahassee, Florida was busy issuing tornado and thunderstorm watches for Florida and southern Georgia. Late Sunday (February 13) the first of three supercell tornadoes moved across the southwest corner of Georgia, striking Camilla (Mitchell County) around midnight. This storm killed 11 people in the city. Shortly, two more tornadoes struck, early in the morning of February 14 (Valentine's Day). These tornadoes caused 6 deaths in Grady County, one in Mitchell County and one in Colquitt.
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