Tornadoes tileATLANTA – Three tornadoes in south Georgia were responsible for damage to homes, a small barn and a church where Sunday morning worshippers took cover under their pews, authorities said.
The first of the Sunday tornadoes was very brief, damaging a small barn building near Omega in Tift County, authorities said. The second, more powerful tornado struck a church near Brookfield.
“During their Sunday morning service, church members quickly took cover under their pews when the wind became loud and their heavy front door was torn apart,” the weather service said in a report on the damage. “The main damage occurred when the steeple fell to the ground.”
Brookfield Baptist Church Pastor Gary Cadwell said he was preaching to about 100 people when loud, heavy rain turned into what he described as the sound of a freight train.
“It started raining so hard you couldn’t hear yourself preach,” Cadwell told The Tifton Gazette.