Tornado Touches Down in Forsyth County

CUMMING, GA — A brief tornado touched down in Forsyth County on Monday, downing trees and damaging at least one mobile home.

The tornado was a relatively weak Category EF-0, with maximum wind speed of 80 m.p.h., said Keith Stellman, meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service office in Peachtree City.

It was the only tornado known to have touched down in the metro Atlanta area as a wave of storms worked their way through the region Monday.

The tornado touched down near Ducktown, a couple of miles northwest of Cumming.

It first touched down at 10:24 a.m. along McConnell Road, traveling into areas near Bridgeshaw Drive and Pleasant Grove Road.

Along Pleasant Grove, 7 or 8 trees were uprooted, including one that fell on a mobile home, Stellman said. In all, the tornado's path was 2.5 miles long and 150 yards wide. It lifted at 10:28 a.m.

There are showers and thunderstorms forecast for much of the rest of the week in metro Atlanta, where meteorologists say several more waves of severe weather may move through.

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