By Grace Muller, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer
January 31,2013; 6:32PM,EST
Update at 5:45 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013:
A National Weather Service survey team, a group of meteorologists from the Peachtree City NWS office, continue to survey damage caused by a supercell thunderstorm that tracked across Bartow and Gordon counties from 11:15 a.m. to 11:55 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013.
Preliminary storm survey information has been released. The Adairsville tornado has been rated an EF-3 with maximum winds of 160 mph. The twister was long-lived with a path length of 24.5 miles and a maximum path width of 400 yards.
In Gordon County alone, 202 homes were damaged, with 110 of them sustaining major damage. Thirty homes were completely demolished.
The assessment in Bartow County is still ongoing.
Wednesday's severe weather turned deadly when a possible tornado touched down in northwestern Georgia. The storm killed a man mobile home near Adairsville, Bartow County, Ga. An emergency manager confirmed that the wind overturned approximately 100 cars near exit 306 on I-75. The winds also overturned several cars at a McDonald's restaurant in Adairsville.
In nearby Gordon County, Ga., the same tornado torne down numerous trees and powerlines. Eight injuries were reported, several homes were damaged and seven poultry homes were destroyed.
"The setup for Wednesday's tornado, it was almost the same setup that you'd see in the Plains in the spring," AccuWeather Meteorologist Henry Margusity said. "It was the cooler, dryer air coming in from West meeting up with the warm and humid airmass coming up from the South. There was also a lot of energy in the jet stream that was coming through at the time. All the ingredients came together across northern Georgia for that tornado to develop."
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